Blog Profile / The Rumpus Art
| URL : | http://therumpus.net/sections/art/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts | |
| Posts on Regator: | 791 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.9 | |
| Archived Since: | June 10, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
ALBUM #5, AUDIO PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT WORK: Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag first achieved recognition in her teens, when she began writing the autobiographical comic books Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, each chronicling in unflinching detail her life while a student at Berkeley High. Show More Summary
The Rumpus Interview with Claire Rosen
Most compelling about the work of photographer Claire Rosen is how fantasy and the natural world come together.
Drawing the Connection
Art is an act of finding, making, and forcing meaning; a synthesis of witness and imagination; a course that veers always toward empathy.
For A.M., 1996-2013
When you're just a kid, you don't realize how big the world is outside of you.
Spotlight: Hiphop Is the Future
Though Matt Dojny has become known primarily as a novelist since the publication of The Festival of Earthly Delights this past June, he's been making comics since his earliest childhood:
ALBUM #2: Angela Jimenez
Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work
The Rumpus Interview with Roger Gastman
Graffiti impresario Roger Gastman sits down and talks about the evolution of street art, his new film The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan, and his newest exhibit and ode to Washington D.C., Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s.
Fifty Shades of Abe
A President’s Day surprise courtesy of Rumpus literary pun master Timothy Leo Taranto: Related Posts: No related posts…
Daily Complaints
Artist Rob Kimmel indulges in some complaining through crude comics. Enjoy: Related Posts: Spit and Mud
A Taste of Larceny in My Blood
Two excerpts from Matthew Parker's graphic memoir, Larceny in My Blood: A Memoir of Heroin, Handcuffs, and Higher Education:
ALBUM #1: Stephanie Tamez
Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work
Happy Groundhog Day!
We’re celebrating the day with a comic by Cassie J. Sneider. Enjoy: Cassie J. Sneider is trying to “ put a kid-friendly, weirdo-friendly float in the sad, boring annual parade” in her small town hometown. You can help make this happen!
(Thumb!) Wrestling Masks and Knuckles Tats
Pen & Ink duo Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald were commissioned by McSweeneys to create temp tats for children. The result: Six (Temporary) Tattoos to Give Yourself At Home. Plus a handy chart for temporary tattoo “guns” rated for usability and permanent-ness.
A Snow Story
Neither of us had seen civilization since last spring...
Hand 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. The opening reception is tonight from 6-9pm at 24K Studios (2400 24th Street).
Literary Puns, Round II
If you enjoyed our first round of illustrated puns, don’t miss out on Pablo Nerutabaga, Leo Toystory, Sylvia Plathypus, and company. Related Posts: Happy Birthday, Edith Wharton! Literary Puns Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with D.A.
Happy Birthday, Edith Wharton!
For what would have been her 151st birthday, the author gets our visual pun treatment. Without further ado, meet Edith Wart-on: For more illustrated puns of literary greats, click here. And stay tuned for a new set of authors!
History of Tattoos
The fact that tattoos existed in a time before “punk” was a word to describe a movement is a hard notion to grasp. The New Yorker has compiled a series of photographs of women in the early to mid 20 th century baring their tattoos.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
We are observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day today and will be watching the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Literary 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: The Heroic Return of the Baffler A Good Autodidact Is Hard to Find The Rumpus Interview with Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel Snow Angels Parallel Streets of San Francisco