Art
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Sound & Vision: Nate Duval
Designer and illustrator Nate Duval talks to Allyson McCabe about how he started creating concert posters, what it was like to break into the field, and where he sees it going next.
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Cover Paintings
Artist Mike Stilkey has abandoned the canvas and is painting on old book covers instead. Mashable has a selection of his work, which was recently on display at The Frostig Collection in Santa Monica.
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Frankenstein, The Tree with Forty Fruit
Miraculous, and not a flaming sword near it—Sam Van Aken’s project marries sculpture and agriculture and genetics and a little bit of wonder. I was able to see the grafting process while growing up on a farm and have always…
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How the IRS Defines Art
In an essay on Narrative.ly, Alison Gerber recounts the rather harrowing IRS audit of Minneapolis artist Venus DeMars: Sometimes the line between professional and amateur is a clear, bright one. But in the United States artists are, for the most…
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Lou Reed Will Set You Free
For Poetry, artist Tony Fitzpatrick talks about how Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” opened him up to “another side.” Fitzpatrick shares some of his memories of Reed and a slideshow of his Reed-inspired work.
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: R. Orion Martin: Image Remix: Appropriated Comics
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Public Images
The Metropolitan Museum of New York just released into the public domain more than 394,000 images from its collection. Dan Piepenbring filtered through the newly released database, sorting to show only books, and published a selection of the most interesting…
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Painting in the Time of YouTube
On the Believer‘s blog, Kenneth Goldsmith, Poet Laureate of the MOMA, interviews painter and filmmaker Margaux Williamson. The conversation is filled with interesting insight into contemporary art. At one point, Goldsmith asks Williamson the role of the painter in the…
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Letterpress and Pictures, Literature and Art
Should art and literature be treated independently? The Paris Review Daily reports that the British Library has recently released an online collection of 1,200 Romantic and Victorian texts in the first phase of a plan to digitize various literary periods.…
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Jeffrey Greene and the Prison Arts Program
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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The Evils of Irony
At one time, irony served to reveal hypocrisies, but now it simply acknowledges one’s cultural compliance and familiarity with pop trends. The art of irony has lost its vision and its edge. The rebellious posture of the past has been…
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The Rumpus Interview with Ania Szado
Canadian writer Ania Szado discusses the influence of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and The Little Prince on her latest novel, Studio Saint-Ex, and developing characters based on personal insecurities.