In Solidarity — R.C. Harvey
Milan: Family Lexicon – New Paintings by Esther Pearl Watson
Milan, Italy – Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea of Milan is hosting two American artists for its upcoming show entitled, "Family Lexicon", Esther Pearl Watson and Fred Stonehouse. Titled as such, the show sets out to explore personal symbolism and meanings that are born out of our families history and narrative. The exhibit will run from February 5th – March 21st 2015 with an opening reception on Feb. 5th, you know, if you happen to be in the Milan area, which we all wish we were. Juxtaposed against the strong Catholic icons of Stonehouse's paintings, Watson showcases her ossilating world between Texas and Italy in…
SEATTLE: Peter Bagge at Arcane Comics
FEBRUARY 13th – At the book release party you won't want to miss next Friday, February 13th local comic book legend and raconteur, Peter Bagge, will be signing at Arcane Comics at 6pm. His newest book is a collection of the DC comic, Sweatshop, which discusses seedy underbelly of the comic book industry. Originally published as a six-issue series by DC Comics in 2003 this is one of the best and most undervalued works of one of the key voices of his generation. Sweatshop focuses on the unhappy, out-of-touch cartoonist, Mel Bowling. As the hand behind a very bad daily comic strip called Freddy Ferret (a cross between Dilbert…
Collected Poems by Alexander Theroux – Excerpt
Alexander Theroux is an award-winning writer whose notable achievements include the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Clifton Fadimon Medal for Fiction, a Fulbright Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. We have curated a veritable tome of Theroux's poetry into this volume, appropriately titled Collected Poems. This 15-page downloadable excerpt provides just a taste of Theroux's wide array of poetic style. Give it a read, then head over to the book page to pre-order your copy today!
UK: Young Adult Exhibition features Fanta cartoonists
MILLENNIUM COURT ARTS CENTREJANUARY 23rd – FEBRUARY 28th 2015 Curated by Ben CrothersCurrently on display: YOUNG ADULT (or, a daring, urgent, malfunctioning age) exposes and investigates youth culture gone wrong. Fun, boredom, alcohol, sex, parties, drugs, gangs, violence and death collide in an array of video, photography, comic books and literature which straddles both sides of the Atlantic, exploring young adulthood in the UK and the United States, from Belfast and Manchester to New York and North Carolina. Featuring works by seminal cartoonists such as Daniel Clowes and Gilbert Hernandez in addition to the next generation of Charles Forsman and Noah Van Sciver, this show is a must see for the…
In Solidarity: February 2
In Solidarity — Paul Karasik
ROME: Glumba Skzx features Fanta cartoonists
GLUMBA SKZX Ex Elettrofonica, RomeJanuary 13th – March 7th, 2015 Curated by Ben Crothers Currently on display at Ex Elettrofonica, you'll find some seemingly insignificant objects, concepts and situations are challenged and disrupted in GLUMBA SKZX, through which the chance encounter is celebrated and the purposeless, banal and irrelevant are re-presented in highly imaginative ways. The exhibiting artists reinterpret and re-evaluate pre-existing material and explore elements of everyday life which may often be overlooked: reimagining water as a luxurious, decadent beauty product (Adham Faramawy); purposefully enacting a series of common mistakes (Michael Hanna); video-recording a small wooden crate's journey through…
In Solidarity: February 1
In Solidarity — Frank Stack
In Solidarity: January 31
In Solidarity — Frank Stack
In Solidarity: January 30
In Solidarity — Johnny Ryan
