Gary Panter and Charles Burns are interviewed together over at Indirect Collaboration.
Levine Remembered
New York Review of Books posted a conversation with artist David Levine, recorded fifteen months before his death last year. To accompany it, they put together a slideshow of some of the artists iconic work.
Happening: _ Quarterly Issue 4 Release Show
_Quarterly is moving onto their fourth issue, “Sea”. And while that itself is exciting, the announcement of the release party at Silent Barn, with performances by poet Chelsea Hodson, Robert Lowe’s always pleasing solo project, Lichens, and Soft Circle, makes the entire _Quarterly #4 package too good to pass up. All the info is below the flyer. There will be music by Soft Circle, Lichens, CNTRL Top, and Weekend, with readings by Chelsea Hodson. Publications and other ephemera from Swill […]
A Means to an End
As of tomorrow, you have exactly four days to go to Team Gallery to check out Slater Bradley’s exhibition, if we were immortal. In if we were immortal his lugubrious interests focus on Joy Division, a band whose vocalist committed suicide in 1980, at 23 years old, after the band released only two albums. In this, his sixth show at Team, Bradley chooses to meticulously redo graphic images from a subculture and re-present them in another medium—painting. Review from Fanzine.
Matt Kish Really Loves Moby-Dick
By Jason Diamond People get obsessed with things and sometimes it causes them to create art. Matt Kish is a good example of that, he’s obsessed with Moby-Dick, and he decided to draw a picture for every page of the book. He set up a blog specifically so you can see his progress. What’s the process for drawing these? Does a quote just pop out at you and you think “I should draw that”? That is not far off the […]
Conversation: Literary Pets Guy, Chet Phillips.
Chet Phillips had me at his illustration of John Pupdike, but then I started looking around his Etsy store, and figured that it seemed necessary to bother him about his art. What do you like more, domesticated animals or books? A book about domesticated animals with a literary theme, illustrated by me would contain just about the right blend of likeability . Whats your favorite animal? Hands down, monkeys. This fascination can be directly linked with the fact that I […]
Don’t Worry Leon Trotsky, I love You.
By Jason Diamond Alright, that’s not really true, because as pointed out by the late Rosa Luxemburg, and noted in the New Yorker review of the latest biography (Trotsky, on Harvard Press) on the ice-picked-to-death Bolshevik, the guy was a “rotten fellow” who “reveled in terror”. And if you know anything about Russian history in the 20th Century (hell, most of Russian history), rotten fellows and terror meant pretty bad things like people dying in numbers that would make Hitler […]
Like Yoga for a Book: “The Complex of All Things”
This is beautiful. From Jacket Copy and Coudal Partners, a video in 3,000 photos of the creation of 35 handcrafted copies of one woman’s book, “The Complex of All Things.” Though I’m not one to harp on the death of print (not to be confused with the death of print corporations, plz), the intricacy of this process is astounding and my head newly spins at the thought of Google Books, Twitter fests, and micro-blogging and I want to holler, “slow […]