DHS Does Not Approve
“I had wanted to make an interpretation of me giving all of myself to my work… I wanted to convey that the cans were exploding with color, and that’s how…
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The Notable André da Loba
We’re giddy with the news that André da Loba, the artist behind the brilliant, whimsical and surreal illustrations for our Notable New York column recently received a merit award from…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/31-6/6
This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and…
Louise Bourgeois
“Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last…
“Graphic Novel”
“I thought it would never catch on. It’s a terrible term. They’re not novels; most of them are memoirs, in fact. ‘Graphic’ implies an illustrated novel; that’s not what it…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle…
The Man in the Crowd
John Buckland Wright’s illustrations for Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales (Halcyon Press, 1932, in an edition of 175):
Cards of Wu
Ellis Nadler‘s “Cards of Wu” is a hopefully never-ending series of woodcuts in the form of divination cards.
Matthew Barney’s Manhattan Proposition
Murderer Gary Gilmore does the Texas two-step, Master Masons experience spiritual transcendence in the Chrysler building and satyrs compete in motorcycle side-car teams. These are just a few bits of…
Paper Ashes
Bette Burgoyne is a Seattle-based artist whose recent works are made with only a white prismacolor pencil and black paper. I asked her to describe her methods for this post: