Art
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Buggin Out in the Bunker
Specimens from the ‘illustration bunker‘ of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:
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Notable New York, This Week 5/10 – 5/16
This week in New York, Granta’s Sex Party, The Moth Mainstage presents Saints and Sinners, SLEIGH BELLS perform, Emily Gould celebrates her new memoir with a party, Sebastian Junger discusses his latest work, Chip Kidd, The Thing Quarterly presents issue…
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Lord of the Flugornas: More Vintage Swedish Book Covers
P-E Fronning of Martin Klasch shared more covers from his book collection.
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Missed Connections: The Rumpus Interview with Sophie Blackall
“Odd things happen in New York, which is why it’s such a great source of stories. Once I read a Missed Connection which took place on a train…”
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Karl’s Journey to the Moon
First published in Sweden in 1926, Karl’s Journey to the Moon (Kalles Resa Till Manen) is the story of a boy who blows a soap bubble which takes him to meet the Man in the Moon.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/3-5/9
This week, San Francisco flaunts its artistic side with free museum admission on First Tuesday, the 17th Annual MoMA Warehouse Sale, SoEx’s 2010: Space Odyssey fund raiser, and ReFrame: Making Sense of Waste at ARC. Full up on traditional cultural…
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Walpurgisnacht
Illustrations by Stefan Eggeler for a 1922 edition of Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht:
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Patti Smith on New York City
Poet, artist, and punk-rock legend Patti Smith sat down last week with journalist Amy Goodman to discuss, among other things, Smith’s memoir Just Kids—reviewed by us in February—about her life and friendship with the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith was…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/3 – 5/9
This week in New York Electric Literature celebrates the launch of Issue 4, the Shepard Fairey exhibit is at Deitch Projects, Daniel Clowes discusses Wilson, John Leguizamo is honored by Spike Lee and Eric Bogosian, Ugly Duckling Presse presents “Talk…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #5, Don Hertzfeldt
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. When programming director Rachel Rosen took the stage at the Kabuki last Friday night to present the Persistence of Vision Award to Don Hertzfeldt, she said,…
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Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
Illustrations by Lev Tokmakov for Fairy Tales about Animals, 1973: