Art
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The Vision To Depict It Their Way
“’The exhibition is framed to be about limits and what can be done within them,’ said Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum, who was a juror for ‘Insights’ this year. That thematic framing, he added, locates the…
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La Danse Macabre
All works from La Danse Macabre by Rene Georges Hermann-Paul, 1919 from the collection of Richard Sica: “L’Alcool” (detail)
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Alexandra’s Aquatints
Alexandra Grinevsky’s 1929 illustrations for Valery Larbaud’s “Deux Artistes Lyriques.” From the collection of Richard Sica:
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Artaksiniya
The Russian artist Aksiniya, who makes a living as a fashion illustrator “for the moment,” is hardly confined by the fashion industry’s narrow view of female pulchritude. On one hand, her bony, macabre figures evoke Egon Schiele; they are fragile,…
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R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman Talk Comics
Spiegelman says that superhero comics were read by the kids who beat them up. Crumb adds, “Cute animals were good.” Spiegelman agrees.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/23-11/29
This week in San Francisco: Brooklyn’s own Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School comes to 111 Minna, Dorian Katz conducts a “panty exchange” as part of the one-night-only art show, Everything Must Go!, and vegetarians take over as an annual mass tryptophan…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/23-11/29
This week in New York Justin Taylor and literary collective Wu Ming read, Tim Burton exhibit opens, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and other films screen, Julian Plenti performs, a short video helps you tighten your table-side manners for…
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Weekly Dose of Wonder
Riddle me this, art-cognoscenti? Why is Frederic Church not as well known as William Turner? Does the Hudson not inspire as great art as (my alma mater) Heidelberg? Is it just that Church was American? Twilight in the Wilderness:
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No Love Lost: Damien Hirst Faces the Old Masters
At the end of his exhibit, I came across a guide called, “Damien Hirst’s Wallace Collection Trail,” containing short, chatty write-ups on twenty-six works in the permanent collection that have ‘ignited’ his imagination. For the next hour, with Hirst as…
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Dood in Ecstasy – Dutch Mystery Covers
Hermann Hilgendorff, Het duel der maskers, 1930s Cover by Jac. da Costa from the collection of twincovercollector I discovered Uilke Komrij’s flickr page (uk vintage) through Drawn’s post about his Mitchell Hook book covers. When I contacted Uilke about featuring…
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Just like on Facebook: It’s Complicated
Such is the theme of a group show at Royal/T. In Bed Together is what it’s called. I think it’s metaphorical.