That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 12, 2021

Grandpa pulled the fire alarm so he could read his book in peace.

The exhibition of boring paintings worked as well as one could expect.

Most of the patrons are examining the new painting, except Maude. Maude is shopping for a new husband, and she had heard that the museum is the best place to pick up a respectable gentleman of means

Johann’s idea of great art is Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang !

Oddly enough, with all those paintings and the fancy clothes, the most colorful thing is the carpet-covered couch.

Self portrait of comic artist at work.

“Super Spreader Event” Renaissance style…

Ludwig Goldfarb wishes he could understand the part of Maimonides’ Talmud commentary in which he recommends duck à l’orange for a post Passover seder.

Henry quietly read his book as the tour group moved on. With any luck his wife wouldn’t realize for at least an hour that he’d ditched her and the group. Actually, he thought, with any real luck she’d move to Milwaukee and let him live out his life in peace. Henry wasn’t that lucky.

max von sydow decides to work on the beard in the afterlife…

Though entitled “The Hit of the Show “/ as all of us “Priceless” fans know/ if it doesn’t include/ a spectacular nude/ you might as well pack up and go.

The painting may be a sensation/ the virtual “crown of creation”/ but it fails “Priceless’s “ tests/ if it don’t display breasts/ and will soon be consigned to cremation.

Oh oh, that little girl noticed I have the stolen painting everyone is looking for."

Johann loved to visit the art museum where he could sit and read in peace and comfort. Unfortunately, he had forgotten that this was Friday and every Friday the Viking Tours ship would show up and dump their passengers upon the town. “Bastardos!”

The “Adult Section” is always the most popular.

That couch has a rugged look, right to the floor.

Poor Edwardo is totally annoyed by all the laughter coming from Steve Melcher’s tour group.

Looks like Monet reading on that couch, before he went blind….

Lady in black…” Now where did I leave my purse?”

“Is that David Letterman?” “And should I ask for an autograph.?”

“Mother, come see! There is a new EXIT sign and it glows!”

The line for the vaccine stretched all the way from the clinic to the Art Museum next door.

The Lady Godiva exhibit always attracted a crowd.

This way to the Egress!

Carl’s exhibition of his paintings of full-frontal male nudes drew quite a crowd and lots of critical commentaries – particularly from the ladies.

“EVERYBODY! The girl who posed for Picasso’s Girl With Red Beret is in the next room AND SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE THE PAINTING! EWWWW!”

Those wacky 19th century Germans, using a near priceless handwoven rug to cover an old wooden bench!

Speed dating…last resort

As she looked at Dr. Freud, she wondered if he had a banana in his pocket or if he was just happy to see her.

To go with the very expensive Karen Eland coffees.

There is a McDonalds just down the street, how’s that?

After a whirlwind tour for Dos Equis, The Most Interesting Man in The World gets caught while doing the mundane.

Man reading the book “Where’s Waldo” and the crowd misunderstood.

She has hidden the brushes and watches the excitement as everybody discovers there are 5 new dots on a pointillist painting.

“Hey everybody, I hear Banksy is shredding paintings in the Denon Wing.”

Sensation at the art gallery: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Johann_Spielter_-_Sensation_at_the_art_gallery.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=7604 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Carl_Johann_Spielter/11131624/Carl_Johann_Spielter.aspx 

both have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, if truncated, the last can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL, which indirectly points to his German Wikipedia page: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Johann_Spielter 

and links it points to (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary). So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/09/20?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there pointed to the same artist info URLs, the first of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2661 (March 11, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

As the patrons crowd the door in a wild attempt to escape Montigue’s noxious fart, little Lucy ponders the advantage of having no sense of smell.

Elizabeth pondered the sculpture of a man reading but found the proportions to be all wrong, rendering it unrealistic.

artist van gone, was disappointed that on one liked his picture except for his crazy stalker viven.

Hope… they… all…get out… of here…soon! Can’t… hold… it… in… much… longer! :>)

Alice, and Charles Dodgson, disguised as an old man, playing a prank on the art snobs at the gallery. Sending them through the looking glass should be sensational.

((“What a loser, he’s reading. This isn’t the library bub.”))

Either they’re “meeting cute” in a romcom, or it’s a stealthy handoff between spies.

OH! There’s the fire alarm! Finally!

“Of all the things I’ve ever lost, I miss my mind the most.”