Art
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The Sun has Fallen into the Sack
Illustrations by Elzbieta Gaudasinska for The Sun has Fallen into the Sack by Jerzy Bieniecki (Poland, 1975). As you can see, the book was actually published in English translation — but only in Poland.
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The Heroic Return of the Baffler
After a hiatus of a few years, the intellectually-engaging, always interesting, often confrontational and downright maverick literary/cultural magazine The Baffler has returned! I just picked up my copy at the bookstore where I work. Most bookstores with a decent magazine…
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Totalitarian Kitsch
“It is the official art of authoritarian governments, aimed at extending state control through propaganda. Totalitarian kitsch exists to glorify the state, foster a personality cult surrounding the dictator and celebrate ceaseless and irrevocable social and economic progress through images…
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GENERATION GAP #2: Artistic Research in Contemporary Beirut
Marwa Arsanios and Vartan Avakian are still young. They belong to a generation of artists who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and their unique experience with artistic research in Lebanon is revealing new narratives for a catastrophic…
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More Jake Gillespie
Have you read The Rumpus Interview with Jake Gillespie yet? Once you do, click here to view more of his work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jake Gillespie
“I used to always think of paintings as big large novels. And then all of these little drawings that I’ve been making, I think of them more as a bunch of poems equaling a chapbook or maybe a bunch of…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s Too Close For Comfort reading, and celebrate your favorite ephemera…
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Wildlife Incursions into Modern Cover Design
Julian Montague is an artist and graphic designer living in Buffalo. I have long followed Julian’s Daily Book Graphics series, and I am excited to present here his own designs for “books from an invented intellectual history concerned with the…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and…
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Resident Bohemians: Steve Lewis, The Significant Other
The last installment of this series, which focused on the artists, writers and filmmakers in residence at the Chelsea Hotel, ends on a piece written by a man who has helped define New York’s nightlife and now designs some of the…
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Resident Bohemians: Gerald Busby, The Tender Hooligan
Gerald Busby’s music for ‘3 Women’ is so perfect I don’t know how to talk about it. – Robert Altman Several years ago, a friend recommended I rent Three Women, not because of my interest in Robert Altman, but because…
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An Elizabethan Bestiary Retold
An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold was published by Horse & Buggy Press in 1999, in an edition of just 1000 copies. The book primarily consists of Jeffery Beam’s poems (reworkings of bestiaries found in The Elizabethan Zoo) and Ippy Patterson’s illustrations.