The Seven Deadly Sins
Eli Levin’s etchings for The Seven Deadly Sins, featuring lyrics from R & B songs (University of Wisconsin Press, 1966):
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Notable New York, This Week 7/6 – 7/11
This week in New York Jennifer Egan and Jane Mendelsohn talk about rocking out, Happy Ending provides us with another happy ending, Jakub Ziolkowski exhibits at Hauser & Wirth, David…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/5-7/11
This week in San Francisco: Lilith Fair is back with a vengeance, Damn Handsome & The Birthday Suits frontman and excellent author, Joshua Mohr, reads from his latest book at City…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #18: Paula Whyman in Conversation with Tim Guthrie
Paula: Tim Guthrie is an internationally exhibited and award-winning multimedia artist. He is also the best movie-dialogue-reciter I have ever met, which endeared him to me immediately. We met at…
Tracking the Trumpet Zebra and Other Musical Stories
Illustrations by Květa Pacovská for Jak Se Hraje Na Dvere a Jine Muzikantske Pohadky (roughly: How to Play on Doors and Other Musical Stories) by Ilja Hurnik (Prague, 1973):
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/28-7/1
This week in San Francisco, the history of pisco punch, put on your flapper finery for the Gatsby Ball, how to choose the perfect vibrator (or vibrators?), sexy new art…
Notable New York, This Week 6/28 – 7/4
This week Keith Gessen and HFM present “Diary of a Very Bad Year,” Justin Taylor goes guerrilla at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, Ed Park, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben…
Sometimes Still
In three different rooms on two coasts, artist Darren Almond is practicing visual alchemy. One thing he does is take long exposures on full moons in ridiculously remote locations. Another…
Day of the Fried Cherries
Paintings and sketches by Witkacy (more information about the artist after the jump):
Renaissance Amateur
“He has painted over 2,500 works and is a published novelist and poet. Billy Childish is creativity personified.” Billy Childish has the punk teenage heart of a fifty-year old. He spurns…