Art
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In the Art Rags
Rollo Press is continuing the slowest book swap in the world. The often-thrilling little outfit has been playing around lately with Linus Bill, a photographer who has taken to silkscreening because, he tells Interview, “Until I made those silkscreens, I…
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Kyle Kinane’s “Ramblings Made Beautiful by Zak Smith”
Rumpus contributor, author, artist, and porn performer Zak Smith has taken the words of Rumpus contributor and comedian Kyle Kinane and made them, to quote Kinane, “beautiful.” View the piece after the jump:
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The Monk and the Ghost
Three pages from Josef Váchal‘s Mnicha strasidlo (The Monk and the Ghost), a 1919 “flip book.”
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Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full…
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The Rumpus Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop
According to Banksy, his first film, made with footage shot by its subject, Thierry Guetta, is about “how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.”
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Rejected Chris Ware
Paul Constant at The Stranger says it best: “Everybody knows that Chris Ware is a genius, but his rejected cover for Fortune‘s 500th issue is some kind of satiric masterpiece.” Constant couldn’t be more right. Check it out:
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Czechoslovakian Expose Redux
The series that will never die. (My favorite installment is still this one.) For those just tuning in, I find these covers by spending hours browsing online Czech and Slovak bookstores. Any help identifying designers is appreciated.
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“One synonym for passion is a willingness to lie…”
“The world is not designed to make it easy for you to create and distribute your writing. You say what you have to say and do what you have to do. And maybe what you’re willing to say and do…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/19-4/25
This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene. Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes! Monday 4/19: Get smart! Head over to Atlas Cafe where Ransom…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/19 – 4/25
This week in New York NOON launches Issue 9 with a reading and party, a reading by notable New Yorkers of stories on their first time in New York, Maile Chapman and Ethan Nosowsky converse, Synesthesia–a game of artistic telephone–begins,…
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Naked Androgyny
After nearly a decade of being a defining and defying figure in the art world, Ryan McGinley’s legitimacy is still being questioned. Last month McGinley unveiled his latest exhibit at SoHo’s Team Gallery entitled Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, inspired…
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“A History of the Timeline”
“Cartographies of Time, published recently by Princeton Architectural Press, is an eye-popping record of the ways that mapmakers, chronologists, artists and others have tried to convey the passage of time visually.” The book wins Jennifer Schuessler’s vote for “most beautiful…