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Portraying Protest, by Victoria Lomasko (New Feature)
Beginning with elections to the Russian State Duma, in December 2011, and ending with the third so-called March of the Millions, in September 2012, Victoria Lomasko sketched all the major opposition rallies and protest events in Moscow. “I was interested not only in sketching the protests but also in analyzing the work of other artists […]
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Drawing Protest / Im Zeichen des Protests (Exhibition / Publication)
Drawing is an artistic medium that has gained new importance in the wake of the global protest movements in recent years. One particularly exciting new development is artistic reportage using drawings executed directly on location, which capture a wide variety of opinions and concerns and are subsequently published in printed and online media. There are […]
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Lewis Miller, carpenter and graphic chronicler (Online article )
Lewis Miller was a Pennsylvania German carpenter who witnessed the era of the early American republic, through the civil war, to the Centennial. He traveled through America and Europe, chiefly afoot and mainly en route he created a huge body of textual and graphic work. Almost two thousand of Miller’s commented drawings are kept in […]
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Steve Bell at the Conservative party conference (Video)
Steve Bell analyzes the design of the Conservative party conference in Manchester and sketches David Cameron during his speech. Watch the Guardian-video:
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Steve Bell at the Liberal Democrats´ conference (Video)
Steve Bell joins the press throng at the annual conference of the Liberal Democrats in Glasgow. His cartoon shows Nick Clegg as Frankenstein’s monster with David Cameron and Ed Miliband as the potential brides. Watch The Guardian-video:
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Das neue Fleisch / The New Flesh (MePri-Ausstellung/ MePri-Exhibition / Pictorial)
Das Pictorial für den Monat September 2013 kommt von dem Zeichner Xiaopeng Zhou, der an der in Kürze öffnenden Ausstellung “Das neue Fleisch” mit einer umfangreichen Bildreportage teilnehmen wird. Zhou, 1985 in Guangzhou geboren, studierte bis 2008 an der Kunstakademie seiner Herkunftsstadt, lebt zurzeit in Deutschland und beendet in Kürze sein Masterstudium an der Berliner […]
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Georg Winter´s cybernetic woodblock prints (Exhibition / Printing Culture)
The museum is not the terrain Georg Winter prefers for his artistic activities, and a by and large classic exhibition situation – with works on paper on the walls – such as the one at the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, is not the common format in which the artist otherwise articulates himself. Temporary laboratories, interdisciplinary research […]
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Strassen und Gesichter in Berlin 1918 bis 1933 / Streets and Faces in Berlin 1918 to 1933 (Publication)
Das Katalogbuch zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, die letztes Jahr in der Berlinischen Galerie zu sehen war, zählt zu den seltenen Beispielen dieser Gattung, in denen sich noch wirkliche Entdeckungen machen lassen. Als Zeitzeugen dokumentierten und kommentierten namhafte und heute kaum noch bekannte Künstler mit spitzem Stift die politischen Kämpfe und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen während der Weimarer Republik. […]
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Some Highlights from Princeton´s Graphic Arts Collection (Annual review)
A choice of interesting articles from the brilliant website of Graphic Arts Collection from the Princeton University Library, all posted by graphic arts librarian Julie L. Mellby. > Timothy Cole’s Woodrow Wilson (January 12, 2012)What is imaged here seems to be not an example of a photoxylographic block, but of a metal stereotype or cliché. See also […]
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Best of Bell 2012 (Website)
The Guardian´s choice of Steve Bell´s best cartoons of 2012 … and is here the annual review in the cartoonist´s own words