Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a [...]
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As an ongoing assignment for their Senior Projects class at St. Joes, my students have to write gallery reviews of shows they’ve seen. I got three little gems in the first batch of reviews, and I’m sharing them with you here since they present fresh commentary on shows many of us have seen.
A Look into [...]
This week’s Weekly has my fall roundup story. Below is the copy and there are more pictures at flickr. Libby’s post on Global Suburbia.
Robert CrumbComplete Crumb Comics #1018 7/8” h x 16 15/16” w x 1 1/8” d, framedCover, 1991Ink on paperCourtesy of Denis Kitchen Art Agency
Social satires, politics and science give an [...]
By libby | January 29, 2007
One of comic strip artist R.Crumb’s sketchbook pages; all these photos of Crumb’s sketchbooks supplied by Rosenwald-Wold Gallery
Before I get embroiled in the silly stuff that sets my mind spinning, I need to say that for R.Crumb fans–I’m one of them–the show Robert Crumb: My True Inner Self at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery offers more than just [...]
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Thanks, Sid Sachs, for the heads’ up on the great article on Robert and Aline Crumb in today’s NY Times. (Read the article quick — and take the nice audio slide show — before it goes to Times Select.)
Comic book page by Aline CrumbThe story is mostly about what it’s like being Mrs. [...]
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Post by Andrea Kirsh
Winsor McKay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, from Masters of American Comics
Mikhail Baryshnikov once said No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. Likewise, artists have long recognized the brilliance and virtuosity of comics artists from Winsor McCay and George Herriman to R. [...]
