Art
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Rumpus Comics
As usual there’s a whole lot happening in the Rumpus Comics section. For example, Lisa brown’s fantastic “Welcome to the Ten-in-One” continues with “The Wild Boy.” And Paul Madonna brings you yet another beautiful “All Over Coffee.” Enjoy.
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Hysteria Revisited: Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet
The Rumpus Interview with artist Julie Bolene. Julie Bolene’s nudes appear shiny and dead. There are finger bones protruding from hands and bluish white faces.
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No Government World Record
I’m only a little bit Belgian but enough to have pride when “my country” celebrates a new record: going the longest of any country without a functioning government. To honor this record, I suggest a monastic ale paired crash course…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
In at least two of his novels, Thomas Pynchon mentions a Porky Pig cartoon from the 1930s. Here is the reference from The Crying of Lot 49 (1965), as Oedipa Maas listens to an old man named Thoth, whose grandfather…
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Adam Purple’s Garden of Eden
“I first met Adam Purple in 1978, when journalist Norman Green and I did a story about him for New York Magazine,” says photographer Harvey Wang, in an interview with Vanishing New York. “I found [Adam] to be one of…
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Secondary Occupants
“Specimen portrait banners” from Julian Montague‘s installation Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed:
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Monstrous Poetry
Poets in Wisconsin are turning monstrous. The writer-artists behind the Monsters of Poetry reading series in Madison have been busy making self-portraits and collages that depict themselves — and the very idea of poetry — as the beastly, macabre stuff…