Art

As a website focused on breakfast, it’s no secret that we love egg iconography. Rarely do eggs in art ever only symbolize the breakfast food. They’re used to talk about life and the loss of innocence and, in some cultures, they signify luck or wealth.

In the crowded world of nail art (44 million instagram posts and counting), it takes a lot to stand out. Most of the time, that translates to intricate designs or dazzling accessories. Either way, an emphasis on form and aesthetics trumps function.

The final stop on a five-year worldwide tour honoring the life and music of David Bowie, the Brooklyn Museum’s latest and much talked about multimedia exhibit “David Bowie is” offers fans unprecedented access to the artist’s archive.

Picture, if you will, a Bob Ross–style landscape: a stream hidden in the woods, trees and terrain awash in a red light and dusted with snow. The scene is hushed and peaceful—until your eye follows the brook back to its source, a bright clearing of pine trees, out of which, quite suddenly, the barrel of a gun emerges. Painted in a completely different manner than the rest of the picture, with broad, loose strokes, the firearm is one of a pair. They frame the ghostly visage of a man with a furrowed brow who hovers over the landscape like a gun-slinging god.

In between tweets about the latest episode of The Bachelorette and Trump Jr.'s emails, you may have heard about SFMOMA's texting service. The museum's collection is gargantuan—so much so that it can usually only show about 5% of it at a time—SFMOMA says that to display all 34,678 pieces, they'd have to construct another 17 SFMOMAs.