The ever lovely M + E who design pretty things for people like the Magnetic Fields, Passion Pit and Phoenix have made four two-color posters for the launch of the new website Writers’ Houses: Where Stories Live. The website is a guide to writers’ homes all over the world, for both historical and inspirational reasons. [...]
Category Archives: Art
John Waters Role Models
June 30, 2010 – 2:15 pm
John Waters’ new book, Role Models is a collection of intimate profiles of some of his favorite people. With Waters, you obviously expect the chosen role models to be colorful and he doesn’t disappoint. Among some of the characters are Tennessee Williams, the singer Johhny Mathis, a gay reality-porn auteur, a lesbian stripper called Lady [...]
ART/WORK Everything You Need To Know (And Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
April 17, 2010 – 8:27 am
I’ve often had discussions with people about the difficulty of having a creative career, be it in art, writing or design. There is the belief that no matter what you do, you will be waiting tables and struggling. There is the theory that the cream rises to the top and only if you truly have [...]
Hito Steyerl at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
November 6, 2009 – 10:03 am
In the recent exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) a movie theatre-like darkness pervades, and scarce light is provided only by the films being shown. This is Hito Steyerl’s first solo exhibition in Germany, and it doesn’t seem a moment too late considering her rather impressive career. The Munich-born filmmaker and writer holds a PhD in [...]
Fear of Music: Is Experimental Music an Institution, or Institutionalizable?
September 2, 2009 – 2:31 pm
Although it never quite fully answers its foundational question, Fear of Music does provide the necessary background for interested readers to formulate their own answers while at the same time raising interesting questions about the relationship of the arts across disciplines.
Garbage Pail Kids, Cage and Cut-Ups – Interview with John Pound
August 24, 2009 – 1:17 am
John Pound is an illustrator artist based in California, probably best known as the creator of Garbage Pail Kids trading cards. More recently he has been experimenting with software to produce randomly generated comics and animations and just a few months ago even designed a series of t-shirts for Stüssy. Currently he has work in The [...]
