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Fiori Di Como by Dale Chihuly

The Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas

c. 1998

Dale Chihuly is overrated. Why museums and universities (like this one) fall all over themselves for something that is made by apprentices and looks just like something that every other museum and university already has is beyond me.

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No.

www.mykidsartonacanvas.com

Call me a kid-hating scrooge but your living room should not look like the front of your fridge.

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Do you remember several years ago when it seemed like everyone was having those elaborate murals painted on the walls and ceilings of their kid's rooms? Clouds were really big:

Well, I am really glad that trend has run out of gas because there are some bad murals out there:

Why make your perfectly good house
look like it has holes in the roof?

Spacious

Motivational

Four words: Lord of the Rings

(please note that Goofy is holding onto God's shoulder)

The miserable economy can't possibly be good for mural artists (even really great ones) and I have noticed more and more people are turning to a newer, cheaper form of wall decor-- vinyl decals.

I would like to officially go on record as a hater. I figure that we have a bunch of fatheads to thank for this. As far as I can tell, they started this with their colorful line of man room decor:

War Eagle and everything, but I will never

have one of these in my house. Sorry honey.

Forget settin' up shop at the top of Four Seasons,

Kid Rock can chill like Flynt in your living room!

Recently, Fathead expanded their line to include fine art. And while I am all for posters of great works of art (I own several), there is just something wrong about a peel and stick Caravaggio:

These things are everywhere. I am seeing them all over magazines, in boutiques and I even saw a few in Homegoods over the weekend.

Okay, I will admit that some of them aren't that bad. These decals from artist PopWall could be cute in the right space (...like a day spa or preschool):

Except this one. This one is really beyond words:

I rest my case.

*Pooh photo via this hilarious site.

PS. Last night, my husband informed me that my last post makes me look like a pot head. I'm sure my references to Kid Rock and Lord of the Rings aren't helping me any but, just to clarify, I am not a pot head. I really was looking for stained glass. :)

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I hate public art.

Exhibit A:

Furror by Thomas Sayer
Lynx Light Rail Station, Charlotte, NC

Horrible. They look like giant stale gingerbread cookies. Really, really expensive tax payer funded cookies.

Exhibit B:

Il Grande Disco, Arnaldo Pomodoro
Milan, Italy

Pomodoro did one of these for Charlotte in 1973. It sits in front of the Bank of America building in uptown. I've always thought it looks like the Death Star.

Death Star, George Lucas
A galaxy far, far away

See what I mean?

It used to rotate on an axis but the city saw lawsuit potential so they had it immobilized.

My wedding photographer loved to pose couples in front of this thing (I adamantly refused.) Apparently it is sexy and modern. I don't know about you, but I don't see anything about Il Disco that says "Just Married!"