Who's your current favorite artist? Who else has topped your list?

My wife and I checked out his gallery in Key West on our honeymoon and we were pretty blown away. He's got a great eye and incredible skill. Every pixel of his images is tack-sharp, from foreground to deep background (D_B??). On top of his talent, he uses metallic paper and mounts his images to an acrylic face, which gives them an incredible vibrance and depth that you don't see in a normal print.

After seeing his work, I began offering prints using the same materials and they're now among my best sellers (though I'm nowhere close to his price stratosphere).

 

Seinfeld has a high Weenie Factor, though. Louis CK is much more fun.

 

The Doors
M.C. Escher
P.J. O'Rourke
Thin Lizzy
Jason Isbell
Drive-by Truckers
Jon Krakauer
Erik Larson
Bill Bryson

 

Krakauer is a good one and should probably be on my list as well.

Also, Stephen King and Michael Crichton.

 

I can see that. Louis CK gives fewer shits than Seinfeld does, too. Probably why he comes across as much more fun.

But I could watch Seinfeld talk to anyone. He did an interview with a rapper whose name escapes me for a magazine whose name escapes me that was hilarious. Clearly, because I know all the details, it made an impact.

 

Jason Isbell
Amy Schumer
Tina Fey

I've also read every Bill Bryson book.

 

Forgot about Bryson. Love his work.

 

My wife's niece is a working artist. We went to her first gallery opening in October of 1988. Arthur Price was also featured in that show. I love his work. Flip through a gallery or two.

arthur price | artist

 

Music: Queen, Garth Brooks, the Zac Brown Band, Chopin, many Broadway musicals (I have the Original London Cast, the Original Broadway Cast, the 10th Anniversary, the 25th Anniversary recordings and the Movie Soundtrack of Les Miserables, which I've also seen in person).
Comedy: Bill Engvall, Eddie Izzard
Movies: Pixar and Disney movies
Books: I am a Meg Cabot fiend (I own almost every book she's written).

 

Should have added:
Stephen King
Tom Robbins (although his misogynistic tendencies wear thin)
Alexander Calder, who was so cool that he designed a way to answer the door when he was in the tub; just amazing mobiles and sculptures. Went to a small art gallery in Chicago that had some of his work, and I was blown away.
Van Gogh. I went to the National Gallery of Art when they had the Van Gogh's Van Goghs exhibit in 1999. The line stretched around the building, but it was worth the wait to see his paintings up close and really get a sense of the power and beauty of his brush strokes. I'd love to go to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

 

Current for me would be Jim Gaffigan. Just makes me laugh anytime I see or hear his act.

Previous ones would have been heavily weighted to music: REM, Tom Petty, Sammy Hagar, The Who, and The Beatles in reverse order. May have mixed in a Cheryl Ladd or Cheryl Tiegs in my early adolescent years....

 

Over the span of about 30+ years...

Pete Townshend
Elvis Costello
Woody Allen
U2
Neil Finn
Coen Brothers
Andy Kaufman
Keith Haring
Carl Hiaasen
Wes Anderson
George Pelecanos
Joe Pernice
Louis CK
Butch Walker