The lighter side of art for spring break.

What do you get when you cross a boxer with an artist? Mohammed Dali. What did the artist say when he went in to see the dentist? Matisse hurts. Ok, if you are still reading this, you may have figured out that besides being easily amused by bad puns, I thought it might be fun to talk about a few places to go for comic relief when art homework is getting a little too intense and you just need a brain break. There are several joke sites where you can find bad jokes about art but one with lots of categories is found at www.buy-original-art.com/entertainment/art_jokes. Also, if you are easily amused visually, you might try the MOBA website (Museum of Bad Art - art too bad to be ignored) at http://www.museumofbadart.org/ or try http://www.megamonalisa.com/ which pokes fun at the Mona Lisa. The MOBA takes donations and guest commentators from time to time if anyone is interested. Two movies that look and poke fun at the New York art world are Slaves of New York with Bernadette Peters (or the orignal book by Tama Janowitz) and the first vingette in Woody Allen's New York Stories. The former is a colorful look at trying to become part of NYC's underground, edgy loft space art world while the latter exposes the fragile, volatile emotional state of an established artist and egomaniac who loses his younger muse. Hope everyone has a great spring break and has fun with art in some way. ann