Graphic Artists Information
This week in comics (The Oklahoma Daily) Jonathan Hickman?s sophomore series takes the dramatic intensity and unique aesthetic of his first comic, ?The Nightly News,? adds in futuristic technology combined with ancient history and delivers. The result is a study in graphic design, narrative structure, comic book theory and theology.
Afghan women come out of shadows with contemporary art show (IANS via Yahoo! India News) New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) After the horrors of war, Yalda Noorie, a 25-year-old woman from Afghanistan, is painting her angst in colours. She is among 18 young women artists who have for the first time ventured out of their country to India with a cache of 90 powerful canvases titled 'A New Beginning'.
Supreme Court clears Indian artist (CBC) India's Supreme Court has blocked criminal proceedings against one of the country's best-known artists that centred on his painting of a nude goddess.
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Goya?s Book of Dreams: Sharp as the Point of an Etching Needle (Princeton Town Topics) Francisco Goya?s series of 80 etchings, Los Caprichos ( The Caprices ), has haunted, inspired, and repelled (instructively or otherwise) two centuries of writers and artists, composers, philosophers, and museumgoers, including the ?simple artistic soul? Baudelaire likes to imagine coming to these ?often terrifying? prints cold, with ?no notion of the historical facts.?
The shoe fits: Local artist Dustin Hostetler designs a shoe for charity (The Toledo Blade) It's not unusual to have a slick pair of shoes delivered to one's door. Dustin Hosteteler, for example, has ordered his shoes online for years. But it's highly unusual to receive a pair of shoes you designed. One of 100 artists invited by Converse Inc. to design footwear for a cause, Hostetler recently opened up a package to find a size 12 model for himself and a size 8 for his wife, Jemma ...
Emerging artists give fall highlights (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) C. Jay Conrod Singer-songwriter, R&B Why he's on the rise: After performing in the background for St. Louis artists, including Lamar Harris and Teresa Jenee, the soulful Conrod is stepping forward with his own music and performances.
'American Widow' pours out 9/11 grief in graphic images (USA Today) Alissa Torres, his wife, was nearly eight months pregnant with their first child when she became a widow on Sept. 11. Seven years later, she has written a 210-page graphic memoir, or as she calls it, "an adult, literary comic book," about her marriage and first year as a widow and single mother. American Widow (Villard, $22) is illustrated by Sungyoon Choi.
Graphic notes from a small Island (Guardian Unlimited) With more than a nod to Swift and Borges, Charles Avery has imagined a fantastic land. Can a Turner nomination be far behind?
New calendar marks Panama City centennial (see VIDEO) (The News Herald) PANAMA CITY ? One calendar's marketing strategy is tailor-made for local sales: feature local artists, new and old, and roll the calendar out well before the end of the year.
Artists Repertory?s ?Blackbird? serves up a buffet of pain, self-loathing (Portland Tribune) Fifteen years ago, Ray seduced a 12-year-old girl named Una. He was in his 40s at the time. Now she reappears, confronting him in the lunchroom where he works, and the reunion doesn?t look promising. The room is filthy, with long tables nearly buried in trash and the souls of the two ...
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