Matthew McCarthy’s Film/Art Gallery
Lisa Ano, in the New York Times Style Magazine, shares a few delicious images and some back story from Matthew McCarthy’s web-based Film/Art Gallery. McCarthy’s searchable collection contains more than…
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MLK in NYC
In the greatest city in the world there are many ways to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest civil rights leaders. In New York today, a…
Climbing Mount Analogue
Thanks to Martin Schmidt from Frankfurt, Germany for sharing his work. Follow Martin on his tumblr Whispers from the Forests and see his illustrations, collages, and photos on his flickr…
Notable New York, This Week: 1/18 – 1/24
This week in New York, the Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER a multimedia event with an allstar lineup of readers and musicians including Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Jeffrey…
I Am a Bird of the Heavenly Garden
Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981 and currently lives and works in the US. She is a graduate of the Academia di Arte e Design di Firenze in…
Film Family Portraits
“All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike.” So explains Tolstoy in Anna Karenina (as translated by Nabokov in Ada). The multimedia…
Under the Indigo Dome
I found Ala Ebtekar‘s incredible art through the website of Michael Bartalos. Ala kindly agreed to share his work. About “Zire Gonbade Kabood,” Ala told me that it features the…
L’Abbé de l’Abbaye
Alexander Alexeieff‘s 1927 illustrations for Jean Genbach’s L’Abbé de l’Abbaye:
Triple Canopy Announces First Call for Proposals
Triple Canopy, the revered online magazine, which works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, will be commissioning ten projects…
David Foster Wallace’s Incandenza Comes to Life
The filmography of the fictional Wild Turkey drinking filmmaker and visionary tennis instructor at Enfield Academy, James Incandenza, the central character of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, will make an…
Calvin Tomkins on William Kentridge
The January 18 edition of the New Yorker (online for subscribers) has a superb, in-depth profile of South African artist William Kentridge by Calvin Tomkins. Kentridge, who worked in drawing,…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/11-1/17
This week, buy The Rumpus a drink at the first Monthly Rumpus of 2010, San Francisco’s MoMa turns 75, and Conan O’Brien honors Conan O’Brien at this year’s Sketchfest. Monday…