Art
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All Over Coffee
All Over Coffee #396 We are so, so excited to bring you Paul Madonna’s “All Over Coffee” series. So beautiful.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/14-2/20
This week, Do You Love Me Now? (The Rumpus does), 826 Valencia’s Spelling Bee for Cheaters, all you can eat pancakes, and Will Franken hosts The Grand Opening of a New Baby. Monday 2/14: Spend Valentine’s Day with your beloved…
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The Star of Manners and Letters
Illustrations by Aazarnoush Ebraahemiroushan for The Star of Manners and Letters (Iran, 1986).
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Notable New York, This Week 2/14-2/20
This week in New York spend your Valentine’s Day at Six-Word Story Slam on Love & Heartbreak or hearing dark and twisted love stories at Housing Works; Michael Cunningham, Mary Gaitskill, Zadie Smith, and others get together to talk retreats…
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Art or Life?
“Evan Karp: I’m not sure I agree with the idea that a writer is more important than his books. Charles Kruger: Remember: I said that while the writer is alive. … It’s an obscenity to suggest that the work—that the…
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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Brian Dettmer: Book Surgeon
Artist Brian Dettmer cuts into books with surgical tools, creating new pictures and interpretations from the preexisting pages. By highlighting the weight and depth of physical books, he draws attention to those aspects which can’t be replicated with e-readers. Without adding…
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Corinne May Botz’s Haunted Houses
In the preface to Haunted Houses, photographer Corinne May Botz writes about seeing the ghosts of gypsies as a child: “I lay in bed stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking.”
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The Invisible World Pervades the Visible World
Josef Váchal‘s illustrations for poems by Otokar Březina: