Art
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The Rumpus: One Year Later
While it is now one month later, we’d like to thank everyone who came out for ONE YEAR LATER, the Rumpus anniversary party co-presented by The Rumpus and sister-mag HTMLGIANT at Broadway East, a charming place where Chinatown meets the…
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Fotografo D’assalto
Modern day Paparazzi have both Federico Fellini and recently deceased photojournalist Felice Quinto to thank for their name.
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Dedicated to You but You Weren’t Glistening
Illustrations from the 1979 children’s book Your Name? Robot.
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Noise Pop 2010: A Pre-Pop Introduction
Despite being a working student whose free time consists of reading comic books on the train while wedged in the middle of a commute hour human sandwich, being a writer for The Rumpus has it’s perks. Covering Noise Pop is…
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Jonathan Keats Screens Travel Documentaries for Potted Plants
In a Wired article, Scott Thill elaborates on artist Jonathan Keats’ Strange Skies installation, in which he screens films for potted plants in New York. The plants will be exposed to travel documentaries of various European skies. Keats states that…
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“The thumbtown toad laughed so hard that she burst into fire.”
George Mendoza and Monika Beisner’s Thumbtown Toad belongs on your bookshelf next to Struwwelpeter, and the brave, childless team at Prentice Hall which published it in 1971 belongs in the Publishing Hall of Fame.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/15-2/21
This week: Recover from Sunday at A Valentine’s Day Post Mortem, John D’Agata reads at USF, Noise Pop invades Nightlife, and the Mission loves bikes so much it finally dedicates porn to them. Monday 2/15: Misery loves company. Drag your…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/15 – 2/21
This week in New York Howard Bloom interviewed by Richard Foreman, Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik discuss mankind, John Cale reflects on music and art, Ed Park and Lynne Tillman read at Triple Canopy and Light Industry’s celebration of their…
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Julia Weist at Idiom
“…I was outed on a chicklit book forum pretending to be a fan of the book and concealing my role as author. The forum administrator who suspended me was named FunkyTown, and the exchange became one of the vignettes performed…
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The Rumpus Interview with Caris Reid
Caris Reid, twenty-six, lives and paints in a high-ceilinged space in Greenwich Village, not far from Bob Dylan’s first New York apartment. She mixes her paints in dozens of glass candle votives spread across the floor.
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Old Man Winter Comes to Town
In attempt to cheer myself up about my city’s neverending thundersnow, I present here Beatrice Braun-Fock’s whimsical illustrations for Old Man Winter Comes to Town by Hilde Hoffmann. The German edition was published in 1959. I have a 1960 American…