Curator of Oddities
Lena Reynoso’s website is a museum of the artist-and-academic’s original work, including portraits of forty-four presidents and a collection of found treasures, ephemera, research and illustrations that reflect her fascination…
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Julie Greicius
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Po Bronson is the author of two novels and three boks of non-fiction including What Should I Do With My Life? and Why Do I Love These People? He is the founder of The San Francisco Writers Grotto.
High Tea = High Noon
Yvonne Lee Schultz knows that among fine manners and fine china, one must pack tasteful heat.
1929 All Over Again, In Japanese Literature
From Adbusters: “As they endure the nightly mundanity of the convenience store or the daytime lobotomy of waving red sticks at traffic jams, the freeter part-timers know that Kanikosen is…
That’s One Hypnotic Monster Truck Rally
Australian artist Keith Loutit uses tilt-shift and time-lapse video techniques to make real life look like a lilliputian dream.
Schmo, Redux
The hapless, plank-toothed, rubberband men of Jeff Ladoucer‘s art are beaten by clouds, tangled in knots, burned, and carried away by an elephant in Do The Apocalypse, his latest exhibit.
The Pinup Promised-Land
Still warm in her grave, Bettie Page’s mid-century pinup appeal is unlikely to cool off anytime soon. Artist Lauren Bergman puts pinups like Bettie on a pedestal,
An Apple as Eve
Apple seeds and the parted pages of books, fleshy fingers and bald heads are among the symbols Alexi Worth uses to conjure a sometimes sinister sexuality. In “Head and Shoulders,”…
Pixelated Playground II – Invader
On public facades across 40 cities worldwide, the French street artist Invader has cemented hundreds of ceramic-tile mosaics of Space Invader game characters. His latest project makes binary code from…
Pixelated Playground
Katie Bush’s art, buried as it is beneath Technicolor camouflage and her maze-like website, makes you search, retreat and wonder what’s around every corner.
Da Bomb(s)
Cocoon or coffin? The transformation inflicted on Nagasaki by the United States’ Fat Man in 1945 shuttered more than six years of war. In drastically different styles, artists Tom Sachs…
A Marriage of Drawing and Design
Lauren Nassef and Isaac Tobin are illustrator and book designer, respectively. Together, the Chicago-based couple has fashioned multiple covers by which books would gladly be judged.