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Flood the Art Market: Artists Helping Artists Affected by Hurricane Sandy
After Hurricane Sandy, many artists lost space, supplies, and, worst of all, irreplaceable artwork.
Flood the Art Market is hosting an exhibit December 6 – 9, with a silent auction and Flood Party on December 8 during Art Basel Miami Beach at The Art Place Wynwood.
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The Rumpus Interview with Russ Kick
Russ Kick, editor of The Graphic Canon and certified information hoarder, gives the lowdown on combining classic literature with comics, cruising for dates with Lord Byron, and masturbating fetuses.
...moreWorks in Progress
No matter where technology is now, it feels good to see a tangible thought process–edited, erased, written over, scratched out, or even completed.
Artist Alejandro Guijarro’s current show documents the blackboards of quantum mechanics calculations in various stages of progress. Some of the most expressive are those that have been erased but still leave a palimpsest of past work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kate Durbin
Kate Durbin’s poetry and performance art focus on female archetypes like princesses, witches, and pop stars. She dives into the cesspools of modern culture without shame, resurfacing to present us with glittering treasures from the depths.
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My One-And-A-Half-Year-Old Daughter Draws All 43 Presidents of the United States
As the election approaches, artist Jason Novak and his daughter bring us illustrations of all the US presidents.
...moreRoxane Gay in The Center for Fiction
“In Drowning Girl, there is such a moment and we’re not quite sure what brought that moment about but the possibilities are infinite and intriguing and that is an energy I always want to bring into my writing.”
Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay is featured in The Literarian’s “9 Writers on Artists Who Inspire Them.”
...moreDave Hickey Wants Out of Art
At The Observer, Dave Hickey announces that he is desisting from the art world.
The professor, art critic and author of The Invisible Dragon declares that art is now a tourist industry.
“As a former dealer, Hickey is not above considering art in terms of relative valuation.
...moreDeveloping Environments
This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Developing Environments, the first legal artists cooperative in San Francisco and they’re celebrating with open studios all weekend.
DE offers affordable, spacious housing to artists who would not be able to live and work in San Francisco otherwise, like John Chiara who makes huge prints with an oversize camera.
...moreThe Escape Hatch
Molly Crabapple writes about her time as a “professional naked girl,“ reflecting on the complicated relationship between beauty and power.
“…I was doing my best to escape the trajectory of art school-retail-professional failure that, as a broke student at a bad school, I was marked out for.
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Jonathon Keats and The Art of Epigenetic Cloning
I hadn’t expected the San Francisco outpost of the world’s first epigenetic human cloning agency to be so, well, pretty. Five mirrors line Modernism Gallery’s white walls, each overlaid with a rendering of a formidable figure from centuries past.
...moreAsk “What is it?” not “Why is it happening?”
How do we respond to art that seeks us out rather than the other way around?
Whether it’s a storytelling mural, a simple tag on a trashcan, or more performative, like that guy in San Francisco who does a one-man show in his “television”, we encounter public art on a regular basis.
...moreHuman Communication
Artist Wendy MacNaughton diagrams the stages of human communication over the course of a lifetime.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Bartek
Born in 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska, artist Tom Bartek’s career is the tale of a man and a city, and proof positive that, in fact, you can go home again
...moreThanks, The New Yorker
The New Yorker links to artist Jason Novak‘s illustrated explanation of the origins of letters in the alphabet.
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Where Letters Come From
With the help of the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Phonecians, Jason Novak illustrates what characters in the alphabet originally represented:
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES
With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world’s newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method: a conversational comic about the state of the world,
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Photography Mashup
San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover, has been working on a project that compares aftermath photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with pictures he take currently. Unlike other photography projects that present pictures from the past and the present side by side, Clover melds the two photos into each other, making his work all the more impressive:
“Now comes the fun part. Where was the exact spot the photographer stood?
...moreThe Last Web Comic I Loved: Forming by Jesse Moynihan
As a fiction writer, I sometimes get jealous of the storytelling freedom in comics.
With prose writing, everyone seems determined to fit stories into predefined boxes. A work must be “literary” or it must be “genre,” it must be “science fiction” or it must be “fantasy,” it must be “serious” or it must be “comedy,” etc.
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Knights of the BART Station
Over at the Bay Citizen, head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak takes us to Oakland’s Rockridge BART station, where a group of local sword fighters — members of The Society for Creative Anachronism — meet to duel every Thursday.
Check out Novak’s illustration here.
...moreThe Iliad, Improved
Rumpus head illustrator Jason Novak has another cool panorama over at The Paris Review. Titled “The Iliad, Improved,” Novak puts his own spin on the Greek epic:
“I’d originally intended to treat the story without embellishment but just couldn’t allow poor Ajax to fall on his own sword at the end.
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Living in the Memoir Office
The premise of Daniel Nester’s The Memoir Office is simple. Nester sat in a Troy, New York art gallery, wrote and talked to people who inquired about his exhibit, which was the sitting and writing he was doing there.
...morePen & Ink Love
Storyboard has an awesome interview up featuring the masterminds behind Pen & Ink: Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and SF-based artist and frequent Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton.
In case you’re unfamiliar, Pen & Ink is a mixed-media project that combines the personal stories behind tattoos with MacNaughton’s beautiful hand-drawn work.
...moreTake the Wiggle
Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton illustrates Robin Sloan’s San Francisco situated New York Times piece.
With her signature wit, MacNaughton breaks down arm signals for S.F. bicyclists. Study up after the jump:
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