Art
Picasso Shares His Screen
The faces of the students appeared one by one, both there and not.
...moreWhat to Read When You Want to Learn about Art
Gabrielle Selz shares a reading list to celebrate LIGHT ON FIRE.
...moreEmbracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
...moreTripping the Ekphrastic Fantastic: Talking with Miah Jeffra
Miah Jeffra discusses their new book, THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
...moreWhat Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...moreThe Habit of Art: Another Year of Daily Painting
For starters, it’s not magic. You still have your regular life to lead.
...moreThe Image-Maker: A Conversation with Sam Brown
Artist Sam Brown discusses the highs and lows of big artistic dreams.
...moreYou Are Your Own Director: A Conversation with Karen Finley
Karen Finley discusses her most recent book, GRABBING PUSSY.
...moreComics as Critique: Talking with Ezra Claytan Daniels
Ezra Claytan Daniels discusses the new graphic novel BTTM FDRS.
...morePronk: On Still Life Painting and the Price of Showing Off
Everything is political. To believe otherwise is a form of willful ignorance.
...moreWriting That Hurts: On Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
Was I ready to read this book, now? After all this time?
...moreThe Clockwork Job Thief
Ornamental yet functional, mobile yet fragile—do these aesthetic humanoids belong more to the realm of novelty or art?
...moreRumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”
Music has haunted me my whole life.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #161: Andrea Baker
“I had to save my own life. I had the right to save my own life.”
...moreLiving, Breathing Art: A Conversation with Bradley Silver
Tattoo artist Bradley Silver discusses the political intersection of body art and street art, and more.
...moreThe Habit of Art: A Year of Daily Painting
What happens when you commit to painting—or to any form of creating—every day for a year?
...moreArt in Resistance: A Conversation with Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler discusses half a century of creating political art.
...moreRumors, Ghosts, and Art: Talking with Jared Pappas-Kelley
Jared Pappas-Kelley discusses his forthcoming book, SOLVENT FORM.
...moreVisual Storytelling: A Conversation with Marnie Galloway
Marnie Galloway discusses her award-winning comic IN THE SOUNDS AND SEAS.
...moreArt in Real Life!
Don’t miss Rumpus illustrator Rachael Schafer in NYC!
...moreSylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
...moreOutlaws in the Garden: A Conversation with Denise Newman and Hazel White
Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White discuss their most recent collaborative project, Biotic Portal, how they initially met, and loving their garden’s “outlaws.”
...moreA Desi Win: Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar
What started off as a coping mechanism to deal with the widening generational gap within immigrant families, Qamar has shaped into a new philosophy for cultural in-betweeners.
...morePaul Madonna Discusses New Book on Making Ways Podcast
Paul Madonna discusses the hustle of being a successful comic artist and his newest book, CLOSE ENOUGH FOR THE ANGELS.
...moreYou Still Got It: Bar-Hopping with Burt Young
Actor and painter Burt Young talks filmmaking, art, and the years he spent living on a sixty-three-foot yacht.
...moreReclaiming the Identity of the Witch: A Conversation with Katy Horan
Katy Horan discusses Literary Witches, which she illustrated and worked on in collaboration with writer Taisia Kitaiskaia, out tomorrow from Seal Press.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #98: Nicky Nodjoumi
Though some readers of The Rumpus may not have heard of Nicky Nodjoumi, in his native Iran he has achieved the status of a rock star.
...moreThe Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet’s potential for visual artists.
...moreWhen a White Man Paints Black People
[H]ere comes this white boy, Asher Mains. Red-haired too, and bearded, like the pirates that once rummaged Grenada’s coves.
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