Art
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Notable New York, This Week 8/10 – 8/15
This week Roseanne Cash remains Composed, Mark Cohen is Beat, Martin Amis makes it to NY!, 826NYC presents Here We Go Magic with a reading by Chuck Klosterman, Brooklyn is…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/9-8/15
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, Nerd Nite, the first episode of Literary Death Match with new producer, m.g. Martin, Ferris Plock’s latest solo show, and a pretty sweet looking lineup…
Autopsy of a Pinball Wizard
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967):
James Franco’s Insane Anti-Career
If you’re looking for a long profile of a celebrity to read this weekend (and why wouldn’t you be?) you should choose this one: Sam Anderson’s profile of James Franco…
This is Beach Art. This is Life. This is Living Beach Art.
I spend my time on the ocean or walking in its sands. I’ve seen some really beautiful pieces of art made from driftwood and plastic bottles, wash-out lines drawn in…
Art From Behind
Kathy Grayson is the director of Deitch projects, and I recently found out about her entertaining and interesting blog Art From Behind. You don’t read it, really; each post consists…
Kolmanskop, Namibia, Slowly Sinking Under Sand
Atlas Obscura published an amazing pictorial today of this Namibian diamond-rush town, which was founded in 1908 and was completely abandoned by 1960. Check out the description: “Residents of Kolmanskop…
Birds on Bookcovers
Jimmy Chen’s pithy little feature highlights a self-evident truth: there have been a LOT of birds on book covers recently. Chen says he is sick of them, but the visual…
Autosummarize, Applied to Popular Works
Graphic designer Jason Huff has taken the 100 most-downloaded copyright-free books and applied Microsoft Word’s 10-sentence autosummary to them. The Book Bench highlights some funny ones, but it’s really worthwhile…