Art
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Lady Aiko, Solo
Since she broke from the international street art collective Faile that she helped to found, New York artist Aiko Nakagawa, aka Lady Aiko, is making a mark all her own. In some of her works, butterflies, bunnies and babes swirl…
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Just in Time! Special Valentine Unit
Brandon Bird has the perfect cards for that special someone. If that special someone is addicted to watching Ice-T always get his man. And if that man is Bob Saget.
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The Inside-out Teddy Bear
Kent Rogowski’s unraveled and reraveled Bears are regular teddy bears taken apart, turned inside-out, and stitched back together. While this may be the stuff and stuffing that childhood nightmares are made of, the inverted critters are pretty endearing. Metaphor? Message?…
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Nordic Craft Superlink
I was looking for flesh at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last Thursday. But alas. The promo photos for “Irreverant: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art” feature Louise Nippierd‘s spectacular jewelry-sculptures on real people, but at the opening of the…
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Remember When We Watched MTV
This is a link for anyone who ever used to potato on the couch, absorbing rock video after rock video. It’s a panel cartoon by Max Udargo. The subject is two characters, Jefferson and Burton, and the single most bloated…
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Impresario of the Inflatable
Jason Hackenwerth‘s balloon sculptures make the quick, traditional poodles and swords of children’s parties look like…child’s play. Works like his Orgasmoebic creation float gracefully in museums, or sometimes double as garments. More after the jump…
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Wendy MacNaughton Superlink
Wendy MacNaughton’s visual blog provides “drawings of people on public transportation on their way to and from work. Five days a week, twice a day, twenty minutes each way. And other commutes to boot.” The effect is somewhere between the…
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Someone is Trying to Tell You Something
Two years ago Axel Albin and Josh Kamler began photographing graffiti messages in cities around the world. At their website viewers can read, comment and submit their own message graffiti photos. Their first book, Written on the City, was published…
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Farewell, Dickhead
Now that President Bush has made his final grope for the exit, The Rumpus asks a few artists, curators and friends to tell us which work of art best personifies the Bush legacy for them. (On the left Robert Arneson’s…
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The Rumpus Interview with Zak Smith
Nobody ever asks me, “Why make paintings?” Is wanting to spend your time around attractive women who like to have sex much more difficult a desire for journalists to understand than wanting to dip wisps of horsehair into a wet…