Art
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In the Art Rags
Despite–or maybe to spite–bitter winds, spring is in the air. The art world and its rags are responding in kind. In Oslo, rabbits are about to do funny things with humans. Vartan Avakian investigates his (heroic!?) namesake for Bidoun. With…
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Written on the City
Conceptual artist and poet Jenny Holzer is known for her massive projections of poetry and political aphorisms across urban buildings around the world. Her words, cast in ephemeral light, slide along uneven facades, highlighting their form just as the form…
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My Love, My Cephalopod
Barbados-based graphic novelist and artist Barnaby Ward has introduced a new series of prints featuring women and sea creatures.
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Moved by Maira Kalman
In Maira Kalman’s latest post, So Moved, a paean to democracy for her illustrated New York Times blog, “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” she gets if not at the heart of American democracy, at least at its sweet tooth. Through…
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Landscapes with a corpse
Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru invited actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about a perfect death, the circumstances, location, and designer they’d like to be wearing. the results, entitled “Landscapes With a Corpse,” are, rather than violent, filmic, elegant, and…
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The Uncensored Tintin
The importance of Tintin to the medium of comics can’t be overstated. Tintin anticipated creator-ownership, lengthier serial publications, and the globalization of comics, laying the groundwork for comics like American Flagg, Martha Washington, Scott Pilgrim, and even Astro Boy. The…
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Photographing Mexico’s Drug War
Since 2006 there have been some 9,500 deaths resulting from the Mexican government’s attempts to thwart drug cartels, putting an end to decades of passivity. In the last week Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have pledged US support. Big Picture…
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On the Importance of the Single Panel Comic and Other Acts
Full disclosure: this is my friend. His name is Isaac Littlejohn Eddy. I like him. I met Isaac when I was 16 and he was older. We chopped wood in the rain together on a rock surrounded by the Atlantic…
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Sex With Presidents
The artist Justine Lai depicts herself having sex with each US president, painting them in order. She’s gotten as far as Ulysses S. Grant. (NSFW)
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The Library of Congress, on Flickr
The library of Congress has been slowly uploading their entire photo archives onto flickr, just this year they’ve been working on a series of photochrom’s taken between 1890 and 1910, essentially postcards from the beginning of the last century from…
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Sony World Photography Awards
The winners from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, and thanks to this digital age we live in can be viewed without having to fly to France (or put your pants on for that matter). The winners…
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Lying in the Gutters
Comic-book gossip column Lying in the Gutters, hosted at Comic Book Resources, is one of the things that makes the subculture of comics so fascinating and exciting. Unlike most comics journalists, Rich Johnston has the chops, the résumé, and the connections to…