Rebel Paleolithic artist

"Scientists have uncovered a rock engraving that may be the earliest known depiction of a human society."

 

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-human-campsite-paleolithic-20151202-story.html

Farout

http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2008_06_29_archive.html

5 Ways Art Helps You Develop As A Person

Benefits of Art

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/11/23/5-ways-art-helps-you-develop-as-a-person/

Cartoonist Lives Matter

"Cartoonist Lives Matter": Art Spiegelman Responds to Charlie Hebdo Attack, Power of Cartoons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wX7eAs05Q0

The Inner Ear

‘Poets in the free countries don’t get famous. Poets in the unfree countries might wish to be less famous than they are’ -Clive James

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/21/clive-james-poets-sitwell-auden-gerbils

Art as Activism: The Compelling Paintings of Ben Shahn

 



1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24lrWVNVRo

EXHIBITION



The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film                              

September 25, 2015 - February 7, 2016

The Jewish Museum

1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York, NY 10128



Anatoly Belsky
 poster for Five Minutes, 1929
 Lithograph, 42 1/8 × 28 1/2 in.
 (107 × 72.4 cm).
 Collection of Merrill C. Berman

"From early vanguard constructivist works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, to the modernist images of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers played a pivotal role in the history of photography... In addition to a stunning collection of photographic and cinematic works, The Power of Pictures features a rich array of film posters and vintage books that employ radical graphic styles with extreme color, dynamic geometric designs, and innovative collages and photomontages. Also presented are examples of periodicals in which major photographic works were published."

http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-power-of-pictures-early-soviet-photography-early-soviet-film

The Minicomix Revolution: 

1969-1989

Bruce Chrislip

2015

"Suddenly, the cartoonists were in control of their own creativity."

-from the introduction by Bruce Chrislip

Poets To Be Whipped And Jailed

"The sentences follow a pattern of arrests and convictions targeting activists, journalists and artists that has served as a grim backdrop to President Hassan Rouhani's efforts to soften the country's image and improve relations with the West, including through the landmark nuclear agreement reached last summer."

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iranian-poets-to-be-whipped-for-shaking-hands-with-members-of-opposite-sex_5630c74de4b00aa54a4bf004

art students rejecting digital

 

“People still have a desire to have something created by a human. They still invest in handmade.”

 

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/26/back-to-the-drawing-board-the-crafty-art-students-rejecting-digital

‘Classic literature casualty of consumer culture’

"Postmodernism will pass away but classics will remain"

http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/classic-literature-casualty-of-consumer-culture/

Poetic Passwords

 

http://qz.com/528223/how-to-create-a-super-secure-password-youll-never-forget-use-poetry/

The Inner Ear

"The Muses' house has many mansions."
- Arthur Quiller-Couch, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, ed.

Ted Rall LA Times



http://anewdomain.net/2015/08/24/ted-rall-la-times-scandal-the-silent-treatment-cartoon/
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/24/los-angeles-times-cartoonist-ted-rall-fired-edward-snowden-book

TSA Zine

http://www.rt.com/usa/311487-tsa-newsletter-behavior-detection/

The Inner Ear

"Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamental self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world."
-Seamus Heaney, "The Redress of Poetry"

Russia Fights Art

"The lyrics of a rap group created in the early 2000s by two art college graduates were ruled illegal by a local court in the Russian city of Yaroslavl..."

http://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-fights-art-355139

Nefertiti with Nails

by Dominic Lagamba

The Inner Ear

"Writing is the mother of eloquence and the father of artists."
from cuneiform tablet in the library of Ashurbanipal (669-622 BC)
"The First Poets", Michael Schmidt

David Gilmour Blythe

David Gilmour Blythe (American, 1815-1865). Art versus Law, 1859-1860

brooklynmuseum.org

"Art Versus Law depicts a painter, canvasses under one arm, brushes and palette in his opposite hand, returning home to his attic studio, where a sign on the door alerts him to his eviction, of the room’s availability “To Let.” The painter has a hole in his hat, holes in his coat, and holes in his trousers and shoes. He also wears a familiar pointy beard. Discarded liquor bottles can be spied on the landing outside his door, signifying that the painter may not have been entirely without fault in the predicament. "

beltmag.com

post-gazette.com

Separated at Birth?

The Clique

"I Am Superman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-O4FntXPs&list=RD5g-O4FntXPs

Monkey Mermaid

 Dreamland Theater presents

Tales of the Monkey Mermaid

by Burgin

Comix from New Orleans

monkeymermaid65@yahoo.com

Russian Store Halts Sale of Novel About Holocaust Ahead of Victory Day

“I said, goodness — it's an anti-fascist novel,” Varlamova said Thursday in her post, adding that the issue was resolved when a security guard brought out a copy of the book under cover of his jacket.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/news/article/russian-store-halts-sale-of-novel-about-holocaust-ahead-of-victory-day/519804.html

Beware The Loss Of Literature

“The complexity of texts students are being assigned to read has declined by about three grade levels over the past 100 years...(b)y reducing literary study, Common Core decreases students’ opportunity to develop the analytical thinking once developed in just an elite group by the vocabulary, structure, style, ambiguity, point of view, figurative language, and irony in classic literary texts.”
Nicole Russell
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/beware-the-loss-of-literature/

Bihar Archives to soon publish docs, lit banned by British Raj

"Rare documents and images, including a graphic depiction of the hanging of Bhagat Singh and his two aides Rajguru and Sukhdev, which were banned during the colonial era, are now being published in three huge volumes. "

"...the work titled 'Proscribed Documents in the Records of the Bihar State Archives – Vol I, Vol II and Vol III', with focus on the period 1915-1947, is currently "in press" and would be out by March end."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/patna/bihar-archives-to-soon-publish-docs-lit-banned-by-british-raj/article1-1324316.aspx

The Inner Ear

  "My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. The creative person is, in any case, continually working at it. His mind is shuffling his information at all times, even when he is not conscious of it."

  "The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad."

  "Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues."

Isaac Asimov, "On Creativity", MIT Technology Review, vol. 118, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2015  (previously unpublished)

Poster

http://rebloggy.com/post/art-artists-1950s-history-propaganda-cold-war-art-history-american-history-red-s/29308712334

The Raven

Design

from "Lettering of Today" by the Hunt Brothers, 1947 (sixth printing)

The Inner Ear

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
Gloria Steinem

The Inner Ear

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
Jack Kerouac
http://www.brainyquote.com/

The Inner Ear

"You fail only if you stop writing."
Ray Bradbury
http://www.brainyquote.com/

Jim Flora

http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/post/25742177586

Design

http://www.galerie123.com/en/original-vintage-poster/3540/weltausstellung-der-photographie-1952-luzern

http://www.backporchcomics.com/space.htm

Listen

wolfgangsvault.com
click this: Mass in F Minor

The Electric Prunes

Reprise
1967
via YOUtube

FBI spent decades scrutinizing black literature

"...domestic agents analyzed African-American novels, poems and other writings in order to anticipate unrest."

"...many acts by the national agency in its decades-long drive to confuse, suppress and blunt the works of black American writers, intellectuals and artists of such movements as the Harlem Renaissance."

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/book-examines-how-fbi-spent-decades-scrutinizing-black-literature/article_92b50aa2-50b5-5d38-94c3-2921366115af.html

“Painting a Picture” Sexier Than Coding, Study Finds

"...815 ethnically diverse participants were asked to rank 43 creative behaviors ranging from 'painting a picture' to 'making a website' according to which were most 'sexually attractive in a potential mate.' Painting a picture was, by all accounts, much sexier."
...
"According to the survey, 'making a clever remark,' 'performing in a band,' and 'taking artistic photographs' rank among the sexiest creative behaviors, while 'presenting scientific or math papers' and 'writing an original computer program' rank among the least sexy.
by Becca Rothfeld
http://hyperallergic.com/174928/painting-a-picture-sexier-than-coding-study-finds/

KANAL JAZZ

Listen Live

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graphic design

http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/

graphic design

revivalvintagestudio.blogspot.ca

The Inner Ear

"My blue-sky proposal: teach America’s kids to read by making them read poetry. Shakespeare and Pope and Milton by the fifth grade; in high school, Dante and Catullus in the original. By graduation, they would know Anne Carson and Derek Walcott by heart. A child taught to parse a sentence by Dickinson would have no trouble understanding Donald H. Rumsfeld’s known knowns and unknown unknowns."

-William Logan
NY Times, June 14, 2014

William Logan is the author of “Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry” and the poetry collection “Madame X,” and a professor of English at the University of Florida

Word Virus

The William Burroughs Reader

Fourth Estate, London 2010

"When gangsters write the laws...ethics become fugitives, sanity is branded madness, and the artist's only option is total resistance."

"...he instructed readers in the art of deprogramming."

"...in his fiction, though everyone is complicit, everyone is also responsible, for everyone is capable of resistance. There are no victims, just accomplices; the mark collaborates with his exploiter in his own demise."

"Burroughs claimed to belong to only one group, the 'Shakespeare squadron'; in the historical impasse in which he lived, language was his only weapon."

-from the introduction by Ann Douglas