Art Spiegelman x Pompidou

A retrospective exhibition about the work and life Art Spiegelman, author of graphic novels and recipient of the Grand Prize at the Angoulême graphic arts festival this year.

This large exhibition is divided into six parts:

The underground – 70s San Francisco

Breakdowns, portrait of the artist as a young man

Maus – the centrepiece of the exhibition and Spiegelman’s work. Import family archive documents will also be presented.

Raw – a magazine and publisher created with Françoise Mouly, now artistic director of the New Yorker

In the shadow of no towers – a post-September 11 project

Illustration work – well-known and lesser-known work

Can you see the faint WTC?

Irving Blum on Sleeping Girl

Irving Blum on Sleeping Girl

The Legendary Art Dealer Talks the Birth of Pop and Roy Lichtenstein’s Cartoon Beauty

Irving Blum on Sleeping Girl on Nowness.com.

Inspiration

Sad yet funny

Ah, evolution and survival of the fittest. A huge thank you to Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin, for their contributions to theories about the world's biological economy. This charming yet somehow cheerless cartoon is from The Chive, one of the many procrastination blogs in my "Blogs" bookmark folder. Seriously though, I love cartoons like this that are meant to be read "backwards", if you catch my meaning; it creates a particular type of suspense that is lighthearted and eases the tension of the harsh reality of the punch line. Also, it definitely shows how respectful we've been to John T. Rex and his lovely wife, June.

WAKE UP PEOPLE, SAVE THE DINOSAURS.