Published by the ever-innovative art blog It’s Nice That, brand new zine If Drawings Were Photographs finds designer Rob Matthews (the madman responsible for printing a 5000-page book comprised entirely of Wikipedia entries) deftly recreating a series of pseudo-abstract sketches by illustrator Tom...

Cao Fei, RMB City. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009. William Saroyan wrote: The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. Virtual art had its debut in a cave at Twin Rivers near Lusaka, Zambia, about 35,000 years...

Kid Cudi will be coming out in a Max costume to his song “Alive” when he goes on tour with Lady Gaga this winter…

by Ryland Walker Knight —No exit

• Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip [Joe Layton, 1982] # So dark, so perfect, so hilarious. So hard to be good at standup. You can watch it online over here, but we watched it on cable. We all fell over a lot.
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We invited photographer Eirik Johnson to write about his ongoing exploration of humankind’s environmental impact.��� Works in his most recent series, Sawdust Mountain, are on view at the Henry Art Gallery through January 31, 2009. — Ed. I have an insatiable curiosity. I think that’s why I became an...

By Aaron Cutler It’s rarely noted how fundamentally Jewish Jerry Lewis’s humor is. I don’t mean the urbanely intellectual name-dropping of Woody Allen, but rather the sheer raving fear and terror, the sense the world is out to get you, that permeates the fiction of Jewish writers like Franz Kafka...

The quote above is from an interview with Umberto Eco at Spiegel Online International. Appropriate in light of the encroaching/already published end-of-the-year roundups.

"We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the...

By Lauren Wissot Russian Film Week, like the Eastern-European films it shows, runs at an absurdly frustrating, devil-may-care pace (at least for this New Yorker). Screenings of sweeping 160-minute epics often begin an hour late, which admittedly comes in handy if you show up at the School of...

Sedate and reverent, Jennilee Marigomen floats toward scenes of scenic splendor. Reveling in the warm mysteries and cold carnality of natural light, her camera impossibly captures, in microscopic detail, the fleeting visceral feeling of each atmosphere its sly lens fixes upon. Whether or not people...