Browsing Tag art

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  Comics

  Rascal House Blues, Pt. I

  The elderly, the internet, and a NSFW mystery.

  By Drew Lerman
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  Essays

  For Art, If Not for Democracy

  "Would it be so bad, if art didn’t make us better citizens, and didn’t strengthen our democracy?"

  By Isaac Butler
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  Essays

  The Music My Mother Brought Home For Me

  "But somehow, she recognized that I would need these songs, that they could give me something that she could not. And she was right."

  By Ilana Manaster
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  Shrapnel

  What happened, Fu Manchu?

  "No, these beautiful white men will write poetry about my hu-ma-ni-ty."

  By Sophia E. Terazawa
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  Comics

  The City, Vol. III

  "Trashism, Trunkism, Tryism, uh... Turnipism."

  By Stephen Crowe and Melanie Amaral
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  Art

  How’s Everything Going? Not Good

  Nihilism with a smile.

  By Jon-Michael Frank
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  Comics

  rearrangements

  Painting toward a convergence of heart and theory.

  By Heather Simon
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  Comics

  Process Comics

  From words to watercolors.

  By Heather Simon
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  Art

  “A Funeral For My Selves”: An Interview with Carla Perez-Gallardo

  For this artist, self-improvement is a kind of death.

  By Yvonne Martinez
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  Essays

  For Children and Sensitive Readers

  Stalinist Russia was a tough place for an absurdist poet, but Daniil Kharms knew you can't kill a pseudonym.

  By Alex Kalamaroff
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  Essays

  In Praise of Problematic Art

  You don't have to choose an orthodoxy to make pop political.

  By Toren Hardee
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  Art

  Archipelagic Shift—A Conversation with Mariano Henestrosa

  "Once that seat’s starting to take the shape of your butt, it’s time find another chair.”

  By Lauren E. Wool