Art
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Poems with Some Spine
Nina Katchadourian makes curious and compelling art in a variety of different mediums, but perhaps her most interesting project—to book nerds, at least—is Sorted Books, an ongoing series of photographs of books arranged so that their titles assume the form…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jason Polan, Part II
Artist Jason Polan talks about drawing in dreams and on wet windows, black-and-white rainbows, and the largest thing he’s ever made.
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Vegetarian Taxidermy
Sharon’s vegetarian taxidermy is the fabric-and-stuffing version of taxidermy animal trophies.
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Boyz II Mentos and Other Illustrated Puns
PBR Kelly. Weekend at Bert & Ernie’s. They may not be as literary, but San Francisco artist Justin Hager’s illustrated puns remind us of Timothy Leo Taranto’s. Check out more of Hager’s work on his Tumblr (or at shows around SF).
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Drawing the Connection
Art is an act of finding, making, and forcing meaning; a synthesis of witness and imagination; a course that veers always toward empathy.
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Putting Tracks on the Map
Jay Shells, an artist currently working in New York, is taking favorite rap lyrics and putting the tracks on the map … all over the Big Apple. This project, which Shells calls “Rap Quotes,” consists of homemade but very official-looking street signs…
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The Rumpus Interview with Dmitry Samarov
Dmitry’s spontaneous cab drawings had such great composition and confidence. You could almost feel his grimace in so many of his lines.
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Intertextual Cityscapes
According to his website, Matthew Picton is interested in “humanising the city by deconstructing the clean, uncompromising aesthetic of the cartographic city plan and imbuing it with the unique history and culture of each place.” Deconstructed, his works — bird’s…
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Literary Puns
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
