Hi all! Popping in briefly to talk about some cool things I did this weekend.
Those of you in the Lansing area interested in art should go check out the Alex Katz exhibit at MSU's Kresge Art Museum. The exhibit itself is hit or miss, with some really good pieces, and some not so good pieces. I think that Night was my favorite. There was something about the translucency of the color that was really impressive, considering the piece was a lithograph. The "Katz and Friends" exhibit in the Words and Pictures Gallery is worth checking out for the cool Red Grooms art.
McSweeney's Quarterly just came out with its 13th issue - devoted mostly to comics! I hadn't heard about it, so I was very excited when I literally stumbled across it yesterday. Chris Ware, author/creator of such beautiful and sad works as Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby the Mouse, and Acme Novelty Library, serves as editor. A lot of big names are in the book - Lynda Barry, art spiegelman, Gary Panter, Charles Burns, Seth, Dan Clowes, and Kaz. Even the "old timers" are well represented - there are Charles Schulz sketches, George Harriman panels, even a reprint of what many consider the first work of comics, Rudolph Toeffler's "Adventures of Obiadiah Oldbuck." For 24 dollars, you get a gorgeous hardcover, a Ware newspaper-style foldout cover, and two separately printed mini-comics - what a deal!
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