My One-And-A-Half-Year-Old Daughter Draws All 43 Presidents of the United States
As the election approaches, artist Jason Novak and his daughter bring us illustrations of all the US presidents.
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Roxane Gay in The Center for Fiction
“In Drowning Girl, there is such a moment and we’re not quite sure what brought that moment about but the possibilities are infinite and intriguing and that is an energy…
Dave Hickey Wants Out of Art
At The Observer, Dave Hickey announces that he is desisting from the art world. The professor, art critic and author of The Invisible Dragon declares that art is now a…
The Escape Hatch
Molly Crabapple writes about her time as a “professional naked girl,” reflecting on the complicated relationship between beauty and power. “…I was doing my best to escape the trajectory of art…
Jonathon Keats and The Art of Epigenetic Cloning
I hadn’t expected the San Francisco outpost of the world’s first epigenetic human cloning agency to be so, well, pretty. Five mirrors line Modernism Gallery’s white walls, each overlaid with…
Ask “What is it?” not “Why is it happening?”
How do we respond to art that seeks us out rather than the other way around? Whether it’s a storytelling mural, a simple tag on a trashcan, or more performative,…
Human Communication
Artist Wendy MacNaughton diagrams the stages of human communication over the course of a lifetime.
The Rumpus Interview with Tom Bartek
Born in 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska, artist Tom Bartek’s career is the tale of a man and a city, and proof positive that, in fact, you can go home again
Thanks, The New Yorker
The New Yorker links to artist Jason Novak‘s illustrated explanation of the origins of letters in the alphabet. We love you back!
Where Letters Come From
With the help of the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Phonecians, Jason Novak illustrates what characters in the alphabet originally represented:
THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES
With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world's newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method: a conversational comic about the state of the world,