Art
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Jonzing for Arthur Jones
The animation of Arthur Jones has cheek and Attic wit. Whether in his videos for punk bands like Man Man and Need New Body, or his animated Post-It note shorts like Anger Depression and the Abominable Snowman, which features a…
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The Resurrectionist Subterfuge
“In traditional taxidermy, it is the animal that is put on display; in the deployments of taxidermy by contemporary artists, it is arrangement itself, the taxidermic dispositif, that is on show. Art upstages taxidermy.” On the resurgence of taxidermy in…
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But Seriously, You Are the Rainbow
When I was little I would squint my eyes in a dark room and see stippled, fluorescent color. I wondered if everyone saw the same thing. Now, thanks to the DNA Rainbow Project, I have to wonder if I was seeing…
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Urban Nature Photography
Dubai is quite possibly the craziest place someone could be right now. A city halted in the middle of Final Fantasy style urbanization by economic collapse. A constitutional monarchy with the (unfinished) world’s tallest building and no businesses to fill…
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Lost Books Live Online
A person named simply “Will” curates a blog devoted exclusively to the spectacular cover art and reprinted manuscripts of books that have fallen from memory. The site, A Journey Round My Skull, is described as “unhealthy book fetishism from a…
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Math Wrath
The bizarre, pixilated art to be found on MathWrath.com can’t really be explained, and probably shouldn’t be. Just take it in, and don’t miss a pixel. Via Beautiful Decay.
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Corey Arnold’s Fish Work
Thirteen years ago, photographer Corey Arnold took a job as a fisherman in Alaska as an adventurous way to pay off his student loans. The resulting photographs have been exhibited in galleries around the world, and have earned Arnold recognition…
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Artists Interview Artists: Paul Madonna and Hope Gangloff
“I feel it’s very important for artists to participate in swaying the popular vote to realize truths in politics.”
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Cool Art on 19th Street
I saw this piece on the corner of 19th and Valencia (in San Francisco). The technique used to create it looks pretty insane. The figure is obviously cut out of some heavy paper, but the colors on top seem to…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Juan Felipe Herrera and August Kleinzahler on their shared National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 2008. Barbara Jane Reyes has more on Herrera. Ron Silliman on on anthologies: “It is all but impossible to even characterize…
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This Modern World
This Modern World, Tom Tomorrow’s revolutionary, groundbreaking, relevant, and important newspaper strip is fully archived. Since 1990, the strip has been experimenting in backgrounds, gutters, bleeds, panel shapes, content, and collage in ways that almost no other strips, and even…
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The Art of Lost Words Exhibit
What makes a word fall out of use? The Text Gallery in London is currently exhibiting The Art of Lost Words, “an exhibition of design, typography and illustration inspired by forgotten words. 47 participants have chosen from among the dictionary’s…