Humor Arts Museum

05/07/2023

You're invited to celebrate the Humor Arts Museum's newest online show: Art of the Ring: CIRCUScenes, curated by Karen E. Gersch.

Reception is on Zoom on Sunday, May 7th from 4 to 5pm ET.
http://HAMzoom.com

Join some of our featured artists in conversation about their work, and about the world of the circus!

02/14/2023

Happy to share our newest Humor Arts Museum show, Humorous Contemporary Sculpture and Photography, curated by Karen E. Gersch. Today through March 31 online.

Enjoy the show at http://HumorArtsMuseum.com

Featuring work by:
Eli Ross
Rick Weber
Ruth Geneslaw
Bob Yorburg
Ron Hershey
Seth Olenick
Sandra Belitza-Vazquez
Rick Rogers
Jim Moore

A new online museum for uplifting humorous art in all media, from House of Holy Humor.

02/02/2023

Daikokuten

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese Daikokuten from Album of Sketches
Original in Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Hokusai (1760-1849) was an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo Period, both a painter and printmaker. He is best known for his woodcut series "Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji."

02/01/2023

Cartoon by Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds started drawing at age twenty-nine. He creates greeting cards with American Greetings, Recycled Paper Greetings and Papyrus Greetings. His baseball cartoons are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
This cartoon and his career show the difference between pondering our future and living it.

01/31/2023

Manatee & Diver

Karen E. Gersch, Watercolor on cold press paper

✨ Artist Comment ✨

“I love the affability of large sea creatures: seals, dolphins, whales, and certainly manatees; ballerinas of the ocean.”

01/30/2023

Clairvoyance

Rene Magritte, 1936, Oil on canvas​

Magritte was a Belgian surrealist well known for his witty and thought-provoking work. His highly realistic but romantically painted arrangements of objects in space inspired new meanings of familiar things and created atmospheres and scenics that were both eerie, charming, and shrewdly comic. Although he had difficult times throughout his career and was often unable to support himself and his family by painting; history has shown how much he ultimately influenced pop, minimalist, and conceptual art.

01/27/2023

Cartoon by Charles Schulz

Schulz's beloved drawings traveled the world and remain relevant in today’s pop culture, with fans who still hope one day Charlie Brown will kick the ball. He began drawing his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things. In 1937, he sent a drawing of Spike to Ripley's Believe It or Not!; appearing in Ripley's syndicated panel. All he desired to do was “draw funny pictures,” which made his decision to retire challenging.

01/26/2023

Comic by Christian Talbot & Sophie Hodge

A writer and illustrator duo from the United Kingdom, their webcomic series “Life of Sharks” infuses humor with real facts about sharks. The series covers the minutiae of everyday life, relationships, and emotions - ironically by sharks, notoriously cold-hearted killers. Talbot started this series as a comedian, but needed an illustrator, and turned to Hodge. Collaborators do help us feel Great.

01/25/2023

Trumpet
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1984, Print

Basquiat was an iconic neo-expressionist painter and graffiti artist who radicalized the NYC art scene in the eighties. He was friends of and sometimes collaborated with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. It is said that Basquiat liked to paint to bebop music. Tragically, he died in 1988 at the age of 27. He was also my neighbor; he lived and painted half a block from my Bowery loft, on the corner of Great Jones St.

01/24/2023

John O’Brien started cartooning later in life, in the late 80s. His career was kicked off by interest from the New Yorker. His drawings center on sight gags rather than captioned illustrations.

01/23/2023

Welcome to cartoon week! This week you can expect to see artworks from our current display, Beloved Cartoons, curated by Robert Quick Bostick. Today’s toon is by Charlie Hankin, a Los Angeles-based artist with credits featuring The New Yorker and Comedy Central. This piece explores the ideal way to capture the attention of your colleagues (if they happen to be cats).

01/20/2023

Private Indulgence

Georges Croegaert, (1848-1923), Oil on canvas

Croegaert, a Belgium academic painter, spent most of his life in Paris. He was known for his humorous and hyperrealist depictions of Catholic Cardinals eating, drinking and playing chess in their scarlet robes. Hyper-realism imbued with charm and personality!