The Rumpus Interview with Tom Bartek
Born in 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska, artist Tom Bartek’s career is the tale of a man and a city, and proof positive that, in fact, you can go home again (with apologies to Thomas Wolfe).Bartek’s prolific...
View ArticleParallel Streets of San Francisco
***Parallel Streets of San Francisco began as a silly way to remember street names, but morphed into its current form after a night of drinking and examining a map. The project originally...
View ArticleLiterary Puns
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.Related Posts:Boyz II Mentos and Other Illustrated...
View ArticleHand Jobs
San Francisco’s 24K Studios is launching Hand Jobs, a first-of-its-kind exhibition featuring collaborations between sixteen emerging nail artists.The exhibit will run from January 26 to February 17....
View ArticleIntertextual 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...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Dmitry Samarov
I met Dmitry Samarov on Twitter, probably through a re-tweet of one of his musician pals I follow. At the time, he was a cab driver in Chicago, watching the world through his windshield and bulletproof...
View ArticlePutting 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...
View ArticleDrawing the Connection
On rainy nights in the drawing studio, I looked up at the blur running down the wall of windows that slanted toward the courtyard two stories below. The college gave art students 24-hour access to the...
View ArticleAll Over Coffee #631
Click image to view largerThis week’s strip is a drawing of the Red Ball art installation by artist Kurt Perschke, from its one day installation at the Embarcadero BART entrance in San Francisco on...
View ArticleBoyz 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...
View ArticleVegetarian Taxidermy
Sharon Thwing, vegetarian taxidermist, greets me at her Tucson home on a Saturday morning with the sound of little dogs yelping behind her. A petite 44-year-old woman with a gray pixie cut, dressed...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Jason Polan, Part II
The following is the second part of a two-part interview with Jason Polan, the first part of which can be found here. Excerpts of Polan’s art from Michelle Tea’s Mermaid in Chelsea Creek can be seen...
View ArticlePoems 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...
View ArticleFamous Rapes #1: Old Master Paintings
This is the first in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape as seen through different time periods. The art is made from...
View ArticleA Portrait of the Character as a Fictional Creation
Lovers of fiction and art (i.e., pretty much every Rumpus reader), listen up.The Modern Eden Gallery is San Francisco is hosting an exhibition called “Fiction,” in which artists portray literary...
View ArticleALBUM #6, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Deb Margolin
Playwright and performance artist Deb Margolin has been honored with an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, the Kesselring Playwriting Award, and the Helen Merrill Distinguished...
View ArticleMaking Art, Making Gnomes
Denevi calls out to John from the backseat of the Honda, “It’s in the process, John. It’s in the process. What you do is real. You are real. You are making art.” I look at Denevi through the rearview...
View ArticleFrom Your Mother
Sylvia Plath is known as a writer and a poet, but she almost became a visual artist instead. Plath’s daughter, Frieda Hughes, who is also a painter and a poet, has created a book out of more than forty...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers is full of energy. It is about people carving out their own worldviews into the established façade of the world. The artists in New York and the protesters in Italy...
View ArticleArtist Collaborates With 4-Year-Old on Weird, Wonderful Drawings
Much like when our beloved illustrator Jason Novak collaborated with his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter to draw all 43 US presidents, artist Mica Angela Hendricks shared her sketchpad with her...
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