Art
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Staging A Beautiful Apocalypse
Today is the birthday of one of my very favorite living writers, Samuel R. Delany. (I spoke once here before about how I share with Junot Diaz an abiding love for Delany’s work.) All it took for him to become…
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Help Send Ted Rall to Afghanistan
You’re probably familiar with the work of cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work appears on Salon and in many other places. He is raising money for a trip to Afghanistan to report, in his way, on the situation there, and through…
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Bertha, The Child-Flower
Raymond Roussel clipped “Bertha, The Child-Flower” from the final manuscript of his masterpiece Locus Solus (1914), but here she blooms again.
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Notable New York, This Week 3/29 – 4/4
This week in New York Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood holds a reading series, Threepenny Review celebrates its thirtieth birthday, A Public Space throws a launch party for Issue 10, Paris Review holds a Fiction Salon, Meghan O’Rourke reads, Ryan McGinley shows…
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More Murrmann
Yesterday we ran an interview with photographer Mark Murrmann. If you liked the photos we ran with the piece, then we encourage you to head over to Mark’s website, markmurrmann.com, for more amazing images. You won’t be disappointed.
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As Above So Below
London-based illustrator Will Sweeney kindly shared these images from his new book, As Above So Below. Will is behind the comic Tales From Greenfuzz and a ton of cool stuff on his Alakazam label. The catalog of Swiss publisher Nieves…
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What I Saw: Animal Collective and Danny Perez at the Guggenheim
Three parts rave, two parts bourgeois museum gathering and one part carnival.
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MoMA “Acquires” Intangible Object
As mentioned in this morning’s Morning Coffee, and in what might only be explained as a tribute to the Pop Art sensibility of reclaiming everyday objects, the @ symbol is the newest “acquisition” of the Architecture and Design collection at…
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Investigations into Politics and Punk: The Photography of Mark Murrmann
I’ve just started walking with photographer Mark Murrmann down Polk Street in San Francisco, and already he’s busted out his camera and started snapping shots of a street construction project. For Murrmann, no scene is too mundane to make memorable.
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Suffocating in the Villa des Charmes
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Adrienne Mesurat by Julien Green, 1929:
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/22-3/28
This Week, tweet for a good cause at TwestivalSF 2010, stop by for just an hour or the entire day to hear sounds of all sorts at the Switchboard Music Festival, get your McSweeney’s fix with readings from Jessica Anthony…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/22 – 3/28
This week in New York a tribute to George Carlin, James Wood reads a book he’s never read before, Shya Scanlon gets other people to read his poems, NYC Twestival 2010, Huggabroomstik, Jeff Lewis and others cover songs by Major…