Art
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Vintage Book Design in Poland
I had major help for this fourth post of Polish book covers: I pulled some from the book collection of my friends at hipopotam and some from a Polish antiquarian bookstore found by Peacay at BibliOdyssey [see his twitter feed].…
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69 Love Songs, Illustrated
If your heart lingers well below the baritone range, then you probably love the music of The Magnetic Fields. You’re not alone. A collection of “mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers” have made it their mission to illustrate every song…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/11 – 1/17
In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who will also be reading at The Rumpus’s first anniversary party)…
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Basic Phrenology
Jiří Šalamoun is a “Czech artist, graphic designer, and illustrator (b.1935, Prague), who specializes in book illustration, cinema poster design, typography, chromolithography, and silk-screen printing.”
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Eustace Tilley, Your Way
Eustace Tilley appeared on the first New Yorker cover, in 1925, and has returned for nearly every anniversary issue since. For the third year in a row, the New Yorker is inviting readers to create their own versions of Eustace.…
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Eraserhead vs. Protractorhead
This 1971 book by Kiyoshi Awazu was going to be part of a larger post of Japanese graphic design… until I admitted to myself that it is the best thing ever and deserves its own post.
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“I draw on cups. Yes.”
Cheeming Boey does astonishing, finely detailed artwork on white Styrofoam coffee cups. For most, he draws freehand with only a black Sharpie pen. For others, he does painstaking pointillism. But for a very few, he engraves the cup with a…
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The Story of George
In “By George,” Maira Kalman’s final installment of her year-long New York Times series, “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” Kalman ushers in the new decade with a tribute to the man without whom our nation wouldn’t be.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/4-1/10
This week in San Francisco: Jason Meyers’ new book, “The Mission” is released in the Haight, Jose Arenas and Phillip Hua encourage you to choose your own adventure at the opening of their show American Pastiche, and Improv Everywhere encourages…
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The Fiction Project
When the Art House Co-op talks about making art accessible, they’re not just talking about viewing and consuming. They’re all about generating inspiration for artists of every kind by creating projects that will get people making, creating and writing. The…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/04-1/10
This week in New York The New York Times’s Arts and Leisure Weekend features Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, and Jimmy Fallon, Sweetgrass opens at the Film Forum, Carol Sklenicka discusses Raymond Carver, the films of Joyce Weiland screen at Light…