Art
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s Too Close For Comfort reading, and celebrate your favorite ephemera…
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Wildlife Incursions into Modern Cover Design
Julian Montague is an artist and graphic designer living in Buffalo. I have long followed Julian’s Daily Book Graphics series, and I am excited to present here his own designs for “books from an invented intellectual history concerned with the…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and…
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Resident Bohemians: Steve Lewis, The Significant Other
The last installment of this series, which focused on the artists, writers and filmmakers in residence at the Chelsea Hotel, ends on a piece written by a man who has helped define New York’s nightlife and now designs some of the…
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What Happened During The Blackout
Just when I thought I was unique, just as I’ve been spending the last six-odd months editing a short story about the misadventures of retail workers during a city-wide blackout (Santa Cruz, circa 2002) I read today that actually everyone…
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Resident Bohemians: Gerald Busby, The Tender Hooligan
Gerald Busby’s music for ‘3 Women’ is so perfect I don’t know how to talk about it. – Robert Altman Several years ago, a friend recommended I rent Three Women, not because of my interest in Robert Altman, but because…
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An Elizabethan Bestiary Retold
An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold was published by Horse & Buggy Press in 1999, in an edition of just 1000 copies. The book primarily consists of Jeffery Beam’s poems (reworkings of bestiaries found in The Elizabethan Zoo) and Ippy Patterson’s illustrations.
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Resident Bohemians: The Futurist, Stanley Kubrick
Soon after finishing Dr. Strangelove in 1964, Stanley Kubrick became fascinated with alien life forms and decided that he wanted to make a sci-fi movie. Not knowing much about it, he needed a co-writer, or rather, a co-creator. He knew…
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The Contradiction of Contradiction: A Conversation with Banksy
“The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the young, bright, creative people, leaving us with only the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in human history has…
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SXSW and Monofonus
The South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals begin this Friday, 3/12, in Austin, Texas, and continue through 3/21. If you happen to be attending the festival, be sure to make it out to some of the presentations by Monofonus, the…
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Myth Mad Adventures in the Print Trade
Neil Philip, the man behind Adventures in the Print Trade, is a writer who also runs the print gallery Idbury Prints. His blog is a visual feast and an important art history resource.