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Sep 21st 2009

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The Ettes - "No Home"

Weekly art news n' commentary, fraught with art and ideas.

Subway Riders Are Greeted by a Blast of Sol LeWitt Color

The Angel in the Architecture
Color, Movement, Transformation

In Full Flower, Before the Desert
Abstraction in Bloom

The Revolution Will Be Illustrated
Visual Books

The Muppets and Gnosticism

What Belongs in the Manga Canon?

Victim or Vixen: Breaking the V-Blonde Barrier of Mystery Covers

Naked Portrait Wins £25,000 Prize

Lost Art Masterpiece Rediscovered

Doc Puts Death and Sex on Display

Artists and Academics Fight Animal Rights Activists in Supreme Court
The Arguments Against Section 48

Ai Weiwei Publishes Images of Himself in Hospital on Twitter

When Comics and Cleavage Collide

Girly Appeal

Continuing the story on the Spider-Man rape controversy:
Fred Van Lente Update on the Chameleon Controversy
Amazing Spider-Man and the Rape That Wasn't
Do DC and Marvel Need a Special Victims Unit? - I have totally read audience essays and articles on both the Nightwing-Tarantula rape, and the Green Arrow-Shado rape, actually. (Don't think I'd heard about Batman-Talia Al Ghul, though.)
NuSpidey Spoilers: The Moment of Truth Has Arrived ...
NuSpidey Spoilers: In Which I Call Shenanigans on Steve Wacker
Really, Marvel?
Plus, racism!:
Boricua! Morena!
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Tangentially related:
I Love You, Peter

The Colorful Art of Batik

A Sneak Peek at Iranian Artist Shirin Neshat's Award-Winning Movie

David LaChapelle at David Desanctis Gallery

Loving Wagner Anyway - Featured story. There are definitely some heavy things to think about, here.

Glenn Beck's Art Criticism Explained
Curiouser and Curiouser

Dan Brown's \"Lost Symbol\" Pirated One Day After Publication

What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

Do Schools Kill Creativity? - Brought to us this week by Cowhat-Ninja

Artist D*Face Drops Ludovico Hammer on Comics, Rock, Art

Gavin Hood Supports Anti-Smoking PSA For X-Men Origins: Wolverine DVD - Shouldn't they also have a PSA tellin' kids that it's dangerous and uncool to ride a motorcycle at a helicopter that's full of guys who are shooting at you, and, like, punch the helicopter to death with your metal-plated fist? Also, it's dangerous to fight a guy with, like, a million powers on top of a tower. (Was it a dam? It's all an angry blur to me.) Also, it's dangerous to jump through glass windows, have fights in alleyways, box guys who are five times your size, run around on rooftops, scale buildings without benefit of safety equipment, cut down trees with axes, and like...everything else people do in this film at any point?

What is Manga?: Definition, Marketing, Purists, and Racism