George Bush, Jim Carrey, Lucy Liu, and Sylvester Stallone, among other film stars, have asserted themselves as painters with gallery shows. There are plenty of amateur artists in the world—what makes this set particularly intriguing is that they already have careers that other people dream of. More interesting than the question of why this group paints, though, is the question of why we care. Imagine the public’s disinterest if we learned that a former president liked to garden or a professional athlete liked to cook. Yet when art is on the line we grow curious and judgmental. There’s another side to this 40,000 year old tradition: the looking. guernicamag/daily/matt-lombardi-george-w-bush-sated-artist/
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