Art
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Zines Have Their Own Wiki
I’m as enthralled by, addicted to and dependent on the Internet as anyone, but a part of me is nostalgic for something that is still being made by hand, with paper and ink and imperfect binding: the zine. I think…
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Thomas Allen’s Pop-Up Pulp
The January 2010 Harper’s Magazine (print) features a few photographs from Thomas Allen’s “Epilogue,” the last in his long series of photographs of transformed pulp fiction book covers. This was the first I’d seen of Allen’s incredible work, even though…
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BLICKFANG – The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin
Illus. and design by Oskar Garvens, book cover, Germany, 1925
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Iranian Kid’s Books (Part 3)
Long Neck Gazelle by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (thanks to roma cintilante for providing details!) I have no information about most of the books featured in this post, except that they are from Iran.
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The Raven
Lorenzo Mattotti, from The Raven by Mattotti (illus) and Lou Reed (text), 2009 (c) Mattotti, courtesy of Galerie Martel
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The First Annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Three wisps of a line in a frame can communicate the speed of a character’s movement, the melancholy of a leaf floating to the ground, or, as in many cases, the sweet release of flatulence.
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Mikael Kennedy: Shoot the Moon
I think I’d like to make my second home inside one of the dreamy, grainy Polaroids shot by Mikael Kennedy. In his photos—a drifter’s gallery of people, places, moments—all light seems like radiance. The washed-out Polaroid colors give each image…
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Baba-Jaga Gubi Trop – Crime Novel Covers from Poland
A big thank you to VonMurr for sending the first ten covers in this post. They come from his personal collection. The rest were found on my searches through online Polish bookstores.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/7-12/13
This week in San Francisco: Meet Elphaba and Glinda for drinks, find out what the Sad Bastard Book Club sounds like, and get all eight days of your Hanukkah on at once.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/7 – 12/13
This week in New York Malcolm Gladwell and James Wood talk about Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual, members of the Velvet Underground reunite at the New York Public Library, 60 Writers/60 Places screens, Anne Carson performs, Andy Warhol films get…
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Blinded By the… Glaucoma
“There’s been a paradigm shift,” Ms. Levent continued. “People are starting to accept the fact that art and imagery are mental and not visual” and that “the heart of the creative work has nothing to do with sight. Artists’ choices…