The Game of Marseille
Tarot playing cards by Andre Breton, Rene Char, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Herold, Wilfredo Lam, Andre Masson, Benjamin Peret. 1940-41. “In 1939 Breton was mobilized as a…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/1 – 3/7
This week in New York, it’s Armory Arts Week, Justin Taylor and Porochista Khakpour tell your literary fortune at Canteen Magazine’s Second Annual Benefit Gala, The PooL Art Fair opens,…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/1-3/7
This week, learn about Asian culture at Sandra Lee Gallery’s acclaimed Chinese New Year show and Robin Sukhadia’s Understanding Bollywood workshop series, get your post Noise Pop film fix at…
Nightmare Trails Lead to Literacy
Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, whose ongoing project Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint we covered here, has decided to create a side project to help raise…
On Sawing Goethe
I received a wonderful email yesterday from illustrator Sophie Blackall. She kindly agreed to let me share that email, and her photos:
Live Rich, for a Good Cause
For one night next week, March 4, in support of literature, the arts and Canteen’s writing program for Harlem youth, Arnold Lehman and his wife Pam Lehman will open their…
The Most Mysterious Book Now Online
The Codex Seraphinianus — a mysterious book by an artist named Luigi Serafini, which is often described as seeming to be “a visual encyclopedia of an unknown planet” — has…
Hey, Design Junkies
Check it out: a detailed look at last year’s New York Times Magazine redesign with Design Director Arem Duplessis. (via @brilliantism)
Riding the Roller Coaster with Ganga Devi
Works by Ganga Devi (1928 – 1991), found in the book Ganga Devi: Traditions and Expressions in Mithila Painting by Jyotindra Jain.
Notable New York, This Week 2/22 – 2/28
This week in New York 2010: Whitney Biennial opens, Gigantic holds a launch party for Issue 2: Gigantic America, Anderbo Reading at KGB, Mary Karr talks with Philip Gourevitch, MOMA…