Art
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Notable New York, This Week 12/21 – 12/27
This week in New York William Hurt converses at 92Y, Steve Beck performs the Goldberg Variations, Janeane Garofalo and Todd Barry in Comedy Below Canal, Christmas Eve klezmer party, Charlie Chaplin films are screened at the Walter Reade, Roger Ballen…
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Nights of Siberia
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Joseph Kessel’s Les Nuits de Siberie (1928):
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In the Art Rags
Larry Sultan is dead. The photographer behind Pictures from Home passed away from cancer on Sunday at the age of 63. The SF Chron, NY Times, and LA Times have similar obits. In 1990, Catherine Liu (yes, that Catherine Liu)…
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Pictory Magazine’s San Francisco Feature
The newly-launched and amazing Pictory Magazine just published a beautiful and interesting showcase of twenty-eight photos of San Francisco; don’t miss their first showcase, Overseas and Overwhelmed, either!
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Seth on the Quiet Art of Cartooning
Recently I was reminded of this lovely little essay by the cartoonist Seth, about the solitary art of cartooning. From his description I’d say that cartooning — at least fiction cartooning such as Seth practices — sounds exactly like fiction…
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Painted Leviathan
Inspired by Zak Smith, who illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow page by page, Matt Kish has set out to illustrate every page of Melville’s Moby Dick. You can find more of Kish’s work here, and learn more about his ongoing project thanks…
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Yue Minjun: It Is Funny
Almost everything that Chinese artist Yue Minjun paints, sculpts or prints includes at least one man—closely resembling the artist himself—locked in laughter. Minjun’s work is delightful, infectious and brightly ironic. His men laugh through any situation, in any state of…
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Erwin Blumenfeld’s Frozen Emulsion
“Erwin Blumenfeld‘s passion for technical audacity is perfectly exemplified in [this] Kodachrome shot… it was made in violation of Eastman’s exact and careful directions. Color-temperature theories were completely ignored. Yet Alexey Brodovitch, art director of Harper’s Bazaar, once said that…
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Artaud’s Tableaux
“Cliches anonymes, Six tableaux vivants realises a partir du Moine, de Lewis” Six tableaux vivants for The Monk by Matthew Lewis, a book Artaud translated and abridged.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/14-12/20:
This week in San Francisco: The last Monthly Rumpus of the year rocks The Makeout Room, cupcakes meet fine art at Project One Gallery, and Paul Madonna signs books, while SF publisher, Chronicle Books, practically gives theirs away. Monday 12/14:…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/14 – 12/20
This week in New York, lit mags The Faster Times, The Rumpus, Gigantic and Open City throw holiday parties, James Gallery holds Pornography in the City panel, Nick Flynn and Joseph Fasano read at Projection, LDM holds Holiday Episode, Stephen…