Art
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Pixelated Playground
Katie Bush’s art, buried as it is beneath Technicolor camouflage and her maze-like website, makes you search, retreat and wonder what’s around every corner.
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Coveted Covers
The Readerville Journal’s “Most Coveted Covers” section allows viewers to judge a book by its cover. Contributors weigh the merits of designers’ wiles, while the meat of the pulp is left unscrutinized.
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Da Bomb(s)
Cocoon or coffin? The transformation inflicted on Nagasaki by the United States’ Fat Man in 1945 shuttered more than six years of war. In drastically different styles, artists Tom Sachs and Paul Fryer revived Fat Boy as personal sanctuary.
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A Marriage of Drawing and Design
Lauren Nassef and Isaac Tobin are illustrator and book designer, respectively. Together, the Chicago-based couple has fashioned multiple covers by which books would gladly be judged.
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Jail Wall Turned Urban Canvas
A single wall fronting the jail cells of the former Mission Police Station at 1240 Valencia Street, San Francisco, serves as a canvas for the postings, paintings and graffiti that have accumulated in layers over the years. The (de)Appropriation Project…
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Laurenn McCubbin is more than live nude girls
Laurenn McCubbin creates illustrations that aren’t simply two-dimensional renderings of pretty ladies in seductive poses. Her work forces the viewer to shy away from viewing the female form as simply an object of desire and to absorb the full impact…
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The Artist And The Goldfish
Artist Marco Evaristti was given consent by American inmate Gene Hathorn to feed his body to goldfish for the sake of art. Hathorn was found guilty of murdering his father, stepmother, and stepbrother in 1985 and has been on death…
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Dominoes for Pyros
In 1987 Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss used common household items and the laws of nature to form a 100-foot-long chain reaction. They lit it, filmed it, and called it “The Way Things Go.” More weekend project ideas…
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Stencil Nation
A subdivision of the spray-can Graffit isubversion is stenciling. Requiring less skill and less time, stencil artists simply put down a piece of paper with text or images carefully removed, and lay down a coat of paint. This offshoot of…
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Death Gets a Ticket on Guerrero
El Muertorider is born: watch artists Artemio Rodriguez and John Jota Leanos trick out a 1968 Chevy Impala.
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Seen at Dusk
Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn’s new installation, “Language of the Birds,” at the intersection of Broadway, Grant and Columbus in downtown San Francisco is a flock of solar-powered books in flight with words and phrases embedded in the ground below…
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Contemporary Art, A la Carte
Paper Magazine’s favorite artists and players in the art world tell us who and what they care about now and why, inviting us into the wider community of ideas and sensibilities that ultimately binds us together.