Sketchbook Project
I spent four hours perusing the collection on a recent snowy morning and could've spent all day. I took home an official Sketchbook Project notebook and devoted the first pages to these impressions of my visit
Art
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Jonathon Keats Will Sell You Immortality in a Bar of Lead
Time is relative, and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has found a way to sell it to you.
The Rumpus Interview with April Flores and Carlos Batts
Carlos Batts, an award-winning photographer/director, and April Flores, a model/actress plus-sized adult film star, chat with us about their collaborative book, Fat Girl.
The Juvenilia + Rookie: Exhibition and Pop-Up Shop in LA (8/9-8/11)
Six years ago, the photography website Flickr allowed a community of young photographers around the world to discover one another’s work. One such friendship developed between Nolan Boomer, editor of…
Famous Rapes #3: Lynching and “The One Crime”
The KKK, The Birth of a Nation, and the origins of The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.
Famous Rapes #2: Marital Rape
This is the second in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape, as seen through different time periods.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #50: Miranda July on We Think Alone
The multitalented Miranda July has departed from her usual theme of everyday people and enlisted ten celebrities and public figures to divulge emails from their personal inboxes.
ALBUM #6, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Deb Margolin
Playwright and performance artist Deb Margolin has been honored with an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, the Kesselring Playwriting Award
Famous Rapes #1: Old Master Paintings
This is the first in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape as seen through different time periods.
Tao Lin Concludes iPhone Photo Documentary Series of Taipei
Yesterday, alt-lit author and experienced hamster artist Tao Lin published the last installment of a series of iPhone photos he’d taken for Vice during a recent trip to Taipei. The final selection…
The Rumpus Interview with Jason Polan, Part II
Artist Jason Polan talks about drawing in dreams and on wet windows, black-and-white rainbows, and the largest thing he's ever made.
Vegetarian Taxidermy
Sharon’s vegetarian taxidermy is the fabric-and-stuffing version of taxidermy animal trophies.