Quite often I cover shop. Lazily browsing through rows upon rows, books with great designs entice me to take them off the shelf, peer into the rooms so eloquently promised. Before even attempting a grasp of Harkaway’s worlds, the front door sucked me in. I had no idea what I was in for. Joshua Joseph […]
Ron Ulicny is an artist based in Portland, Oregon, and I first learned of him on this eponymous ‘Series of Tubes.’ His oddball sculptures often make waves on various Tumblr and art blogs, but Ulicny is far more than a digital-age phenomenon—he’s a hard-working artist that doesn’t give a shit about much else than making […]
The answer is yes.
When I was just out of school and working in food service I hoped there would never be a time when the wish of Robert Crumb – as related to the audience by his wife and fellow artist, Aline, in Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb – to just be a head in a jar would resound so […]
“The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.” –Ferruccio Busoni There is an argument—we’ve all heard it—that criticism and creation are fundamentally at odds, despite their hunger for the same endpoint: good art. I used to think this was somewhat reductive and overly simplistic. I’ve always enjoyed […]
