That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 14, 2021

“You know what we need? More women artists.”

“It will sell for more if we tell them it was banned in Boston.”

Prospective Patrons shopping for just the right artist to throw money at so that all of high society will know how creative and avante guard they are (and maybe they’ll like the artist also)

They were so close, wearing masks around their throats.

Artists waiting for the nude model to show up

The annual Broken Neck Bikers Convention was always a low key affair.

Promise them free mead and watch the gang show up!

Audition time for the Mitch McConnell impersonators.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU! (and don’t you forget it)!

The Boilly herd gets the worm.

At the “Stock” Exchange , nobody ever has a sore throat.

So that’s your stamp collection. All three of them?

Does anybody know what we’re doing here?

where’s waldo…?

This incredibly stiff-necked crowd/ had one iron rule: no girls allowed./ But the sad truth emergin’/ is that each one died virgin/ why the hell are they all so proud ?///Aristocrats, “nobly” born/ viewed the masses with infinite scorn/ yet they gathered in flocks/ to view cultural “shocks”/ such as Bouguereau’s soft-core porn./// But, thanks to the internet/ even slobs such as we now can get/ almost effortlessly/(and what’s more, it is free !)/ the stuff for which they had to sweat./// So be grateful, O modern dude,/ for this site, with its lure for the lewd/ neither quibble nor carp/ if the girl with the harp/ disappoints when you’d hoped for a nude !

“Who do you gotta xxxx to get a chair around here?”

Oh no. Dogecoin is for my grandmother. I want art, but only if it’s an NFT. I’m diversifying from cryptokitties to Cara Delevingne’s vagina.

I’ve been thinking we’re all a little too set in our ways. What do you think would happen if I painted a bowler hat on an apple?

The Continental Congress used to meet at “Ye Olde Ale and Victuals” after fighting all day over the wording of various documents.

Adam Apple’s French Bib & Tucker Club was dedicated to the artful disguise of double chins and turkey-necks.

Meeting of Artists in Isabey’s Studio: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gathering-of-Artists-in-the-Studio-canvas-1798.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting. The image in the Summary section has been annotated to identify several of the participants.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/boilly_louis-leopold.html 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/boilly2.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/boilly/biograph.html 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3264/louis-leopold-boilly-french-1761-1845/ 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Leopold-Boilly 

https://www.kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199001 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Louis_Leopold_Boilly/9000885/Louis_Leopold_Boilly.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/louis.boilly/2168082 

https://mr-expert.com/en/artwork-quotes/louis-leopold-boilly-price/ 

https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.975.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 9 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/05/13?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 9 of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2707 (May 13, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“So my agent called and said they were having auditions for the new Downton Abbey movie.”

The first round of musical chairs is meant to remove 75% of the contestants.

Isaac prayed no one would pull his finger as the massive, wet, fart struggled to explode.

Georgio (siting) has neck brace on incase there is another Capital break in, he will be the first to be carried away to safety.

The artists had to sit there endlessly while the group portrait was done. How’s that for getting a taste of your own medicine?

Hey, how do you like my new silk stockings?

I hate this new tight trousers fashion. It exposes private situations!