It’s food for the retina.
Unmasked
It’s Banksy’s World . . . But Not Officially
The museum in Lisbon, Portugal, showcases 100 reproductions of Banksy’s artwork through video, installations, graffiti, canvases, projections, and murals.
He Was a No-Show at the Academy Awards But …
. . . somehow he turned up in this collage.
Days of Judgment
Poems and Drawings That Speak for Themselves
New from Moloko Print — ‘Days of Judgment’ by Mark Terrill with drawings by Gerard Bellaart.
Swiss Composer-Musician-Videographer Takes a Bow
They’re celebrating Steff Signer’s 75th birthday at the Palace tonight in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Paul Zelevansky’s Absurdist Tale of ‘Monkey & Man’
It began as a performance piece. That was a long time ago . . . 1985, to be precise, in Brooklyn. The author presented Individual stories as performances and installations. The texts also began appearing in little magazines.
Just Because . . .
. . . Trumpscheisse has repeatedly threatened to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship (pairing her with Robert De Niro), the staff thought this worth posting.
THE BLACK SCHOONER
Amistad Slave Rebellion Retold in New Graphic Novel
Before Black History Month runs out, let’s note that David Lester has a new graphic novel in the works: THE BLACK SCHOONER. “It tells the true story of the 1839 uprising aboard the Amistad,” Lester says, and is one of a “growing number of titles depicting history from below.”
Peter Mathiessen Had Many Eagle-Eyed Identities
Among them were novelist, naturalist, fisherman, CIA spy.
AI Is Working on It
Do you remember January 6?
About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Apostasy . . .
This is a curiosity.
‘Don’t Forget My Old Soul’
When I saw this eye-popping video for the first time, it bowled me over. I’ve rewatched it several times and am still marveling at it. But is this work a piece of AI-slop? Is it “kind of meaningless in [its] calculated reality,” as Doug McLennan has written of the genre? Or is it more than that?
Thoughts While Not Thinking
Stealthy
quantum words
phantoms of expectation
and suicides of time
riddle us
with springs and traps.
Cut Paste Print
A History of Political Photomontage in the 20th Century
This blogpost cannot adequately display the exhaustive content and brilliant design of “Couper, Coller, Imprimer,” the richly illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary photomontage exhibition at La Contemporaine in Nantes, France (running through March 14). Even so, it is hoped that this limited attempt evokes the broad historical spirit of the exhibition while offering an edited summary of the subject by the curators, Max Bonhomme and Aline Théret, in their own words.
Quoting William S. Burroughs
A Book Designer’s Take on Political Conditions
Have a look.
Twenty Twenty-Six
Heavy
winter snows
whitened the trees.
They turned the branches
into filigrees
shivering in the wind.
Goodbye to 2025
Beneath
that commanding sky
helicopters beat the air
like motorcycles
flying by.