After nearly two years of meticulous work, Pittsburgh-based artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth—known collectively as Tugboat Printshop—have unveiled Overlook, a stunningly intricate woodcut of a beautiful landscape. The woodblock will be used to make limited edition color prints, available for pre-order here.
Peru-based artist Ana Teresa Barboza uses yarn, thread, wool, and fabric to produce unique, tactile embroidery works. The artist has no boundaries to the way she creates, blending drawings and photographs together with embroidery and knitting to produce unexpected forms that extend beyond walls and frames.
Form, for these poets, grows out of and exceeds subject, matter, material, the weight of paint, the phonemes in words: form occurs not because we have nothing, but because we want more.
I have never heard anyone talk about this film and that is a tragedy! It is so damn good. Chicago in the 60s, mobsters, lounge acts, stand-up comedy, Stan Getz soundtrack, a Jean Tinguely-esque self-destructing machine… What’s not to love?
Mickey One (1965, dir. Arthur Penn) stars Warren Beatty as a stand-up comedian who can’t live his life because he’s paranoid that the mob is after him. He doesn’t know who to believe, and we don’t either. Deserves to be on the top of any list of best Chicago films, best American New Wave films, best 60s films. Well, in my opinion, just one of the best films period. It’s a wonder that Criterion hasn’t gotten a hold of it yet.
The only pleasant thing that’s happened to me since you left is that I read Paul Goodman’s current manifesto in Kenyon Review and if you haven’t devoured its delicious message rush to your nearest newsstand! It is really lucid about what’s bothering us both besides sex, and it’s so…
Frank O'Hara, master wordsmith AND master draftsman.
