Pop Making Sense: Brian McDonald’s fabulous mixed media art
‘Mother’s Little Helper.’ Like. Love. Ha-Ha. Tweet. Share. Post. Walk. Don’t Walk. Keep to the left. Turn clockwise. Open lid carefully. Mind the gap. Wash…
Art Archives: 05/2018
Tom Adams’ macabre, surreal, and unsettling covers for classic crime novels
Tom Adams is an artist best-known for his cover artwork for books by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Kingsley Amis, and John Fowles during the 1960s…
David Lynch’s memorably pointless comic strip ‘The Angriest Dog in the World’
It was hiding in plain sight, and yet it was almost designed not to be noticed at all. For several years from the mid-1980s to…
The Devil’s in the brushstroke: Lurid paintings of monsters, nightmares & demons for Mexican pulps
We have their paintings, their names, and that’s about it. Araujo, Dorantes, Fzavala, Marin, Pérez, Luna, and Ortiz. Many more just disappeared or have been…
‘Europe after the Rain,’ classic documentary on Dada and Surrealism
‘Portrait of Andre Breton’ by Man Ray, c. 1930 Europe after the Rain, the Arts Council of Great Britain’s 1978 documentary on Dada and Surrealism,…
Meet the priest who was Oscar Wilde’s lover and partly the basis for ‘Dorian Gray’
The writer Max Frisch once wrote that an author does nothing worse than betray himself. In that, a work of fiction reveals more of a…