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Call for Visual Submissions by 12th Street magazine

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12th Street, the literary magazine published by the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy, is seeking quality poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. It is also accepting submissions of photographs, paintings, or other visual material that can be reproduced in magazine format.

Prose submissions should not exceed 9,000 words and poetry submissions should not include more than seven poems. Submissions will be read anonymously. Please submit a cover sheet including your name, the title or titles of your works, and your contact information. Your name should not appear on any of the other pages of your work.

12th Street is committed to publishing the literary work of The New School’s undergraduate community. Our mission is to present literature that discusses the artist as intellectual and explores the role of the writer in the world. We want to promote literature as an engine of democracy.

12th Street is widely distributed in bookstores around the country and on the New School campus. Please send your work to juliecarl13@yahoo.com no later than November 15.

Passing it Along: New Sendables at JibJab

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Check out the rad new Halloween-ish Sendables over at JibJab (started by Parsons Illustration alum Evan N. Spiridellis and his brother!):

Do the Monster Mash!

You and your friends will make a hell of a Monster Mash when you turn yourselves into creatures of the night using JibJab’s easy and terrifying new transformation technology! Before you’ll know it, you’ll have created a monster!
http://cts.jibjab.com/t/21132/6102286/469/0/

Night of the Living Dead’ish

Put yourself and a friend into the most classic zombie movie ever made! Braiiins!
http://cts.jibjab.com/t/21132/6102286/470/0/

Plus new pictures, videos and a whole lot more!
http://cts.jibjab.com/t/21132/6102286/469/0/

Quick Hit: Electric Car video by Ru Kuwahata and Tiny Inventions

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Check out this rad video for They Might Be Giants by Tiny Inventions featuring the work of Parsons Illustration Alum Ru Kuwahata! Whew–that was an amazing long string of happy information!  Congrats to Ru (and Max) on the tremendous video.

Bonus: Ru will be lecturing and presenting her work in Veronica Lawlor’s Illustration in Motion class, on Monday, November 2, 2009, 9:30 am. Location: 2 West 13th St. building, room 1104.  All are welcome to attend.

And hey, are you a Parsons Illustration Alumni?  Keep us updated!  We want to feature your work and books and projects right here on this very blog!  Email, send us a Facebook message, or catch up with us on Twitter.  We’re here to sing your praises!

Maurice Sendak Happenings around the City

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Sendak in SoHo
Animazing Gallery Sendak in Soho
http://www.animazing.com/gallery/pages/show_SENDAK-IN-SOHO.html
Through Nov 8, 2009
Maurice Sendak Event! A collection of original published & conceptual illustrations from the collection of the renowned artist and author who created Where the Wild Things Are.
54 Greene St. NYC 10013
Corner of Greene & Broome Toll Free 800.303.4848 Phone 212.226.7374 Mon – Sat 10-7PM Sundays 11 – 6PM

Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Through October 18, 2009
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/7592
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
2009. USA. Directed by Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze. Produced by Perry Moore, Hunter Hill, Allison Sarofim, and Vincent Landay. 40 min.
Maurice at the World’s Fair
2009. USA. Directed by Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs. With Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, Bob Stephenson. 4 min.
Where the Wild Things Are [clip]
2009. USA. Directed by Spike Jonze. 5 min.

Where the Wild Things Are: Original Drawings by Maurice Sendak

through November 1, 2009
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
New York, NY 10016

This special exhibition features original drawings and manuscript pages from the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (b. 1928). The show is part of a citywide celebration honoring Mr. Sendak and marking the premiere of a new Warner Bros. movie adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze.

The exhibition presents a rare opportunity to witness Sendak’s creative process—from his early drafts about an unnamed boy in search of wild horses to the well-known narrative about a child named Max taming the beastly “things” of his own imagination. Twelve drawings and two manuscript pages will be on view in the Morgan’s historic McKim building.

The exhibition includes such iconic images as Max in his wolf suit, grinning in his tree-filled bedroom; his arrival in the land of “wild things”; and his triumphant departure by sailboat. Also on view are a pencil drawing for the cover illustration of a sleeping “wild thing” as well as a preliminary sketch—not incorporated into the final published version—of a mischievous Max on all fours atop the dinner table slurping a strand of spaghetti.

Drawings on tracing paper show Sendak’s process of transferring preliminary sketches to another sheet for further development, while manuscript drafts offer a window into the author’s composition process. After drafting preliminary text about a boy seeking wild horses, Sendak entreats himself to “Drop this story for time being—I’m forcing it, and it won’t be forced.” After another try at a story about Max and the wild things—in verse—Sendak writes ALL BAD!!! and goes on to refine the story into the text that has become familiar to millions of readers.

Since its publication in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are has become one of the most beloved of all modern children’s books. Like most of Sendak’s works, it is partly autobiographical, born of long family dinners in 1930s Brooklyn, favorite monster movies from childhood, and a keen understanding of the importance of fantasy as a way to learn and grow. While the book went on to win a Caldecott Award and has been adapted for the stage and now the screen, Sendak’s drawings reveal its most enduring legacy: the ability to convey the innocence and imagination of a child.

The Morgan held exhibitions of Sendak’s work in 1981 and 1988, and he recently lent original Jean de Brunhoff drawings from his own collection to the Morgan’s 2008 exhibition Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors.

The works on view in the exhibition, on loan from the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, are part of a group of some ten thousand items by Sendak, including preliminary and finished drawings and manuscripts for over one hundred books, as well as prints, acrylic paintings, hand-made books, publishers’ proofs, first and foreign printed editions, and a wide range of ephemera. It is the largest collection of the artist’s work in the world.

Related events will be held at several locations around the city, including Lincoln Center, The Museum of Modern Art, and The New York Public Library. Animazing Gallery will hold an exhibition, Sendak in SoHo, from October 1 – November 8.

This exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia.

Tara McPherson in Sao Paolo!

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This is an awesome time-lapse video of Parsons Illustration Faculty Tara McPherson creating a special art installation at Choque Cultural Gallery in Sao Paolo, Brazil back in the summertime. It surfaced awhile back (we shared it on Facebook and Twitter), but it’s still pretty awe-inspiring and is definitely worth another look.  You can see more images and commentary on this project over at the I Love Offset website.

Tara will be back teaching in the Spring and we’ll be glad to have her back. 🙂


David Stromberg lecture on October 12th

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Presented by: LANG JEWISH TEXT, NSGS JEWISH CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM and ZEEK MAGAZINE

DAVID STROMBERG discusses Writing in Jerusalem. David Stromberg is a writer, artist and journalist. Dubbed “Thurber on speed,” his publications include four collections of single-panel cartoons-Saddies, Baddies, Confusies, and Desperaddies. He has written on art and culture for The Believer, Nextbook, St. Petersburg Times, Jerusalem Post, and Ha’aretz.His fiction has appeared in the UK’s Ambit. Born in Ashdod, Israel, to ex-Soviet parents, Stromberg grew up in urban Los Angeles and currently resides in Jerusalem.

MONDAY, OCT 12, 6-8PM

M101, 66 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY

Cutters collage show at Cinders Gallery featuring Illustration faculty!

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Cutters showcases a variety of contemporary collage from North America and Europe. With over 40 artists contributing close to 150 works, the gallery will be transformed into one giant assemblage, glue stains and all.

Featuring:
Andreas Banderas (Norway), Michael Bartalos (USA), Melinda Beck (USA), Brian Belott (USA), Jorge Chamorro/ La Cascara Amarga (Spain), Brian Chippendale (USA), Ophelia Chong (USA), Saiman Chow (USA), Cless (Spain), Rebecca Conroy (USA), Cristiana Couceiro (Portugal), Valero Doval (UK), Andy Ducett (USA), Carl Dunn (USA), Lisa Eisenbrey (USA), Elroy (Germany), James Gallagher (USA), Jason Glasser (France), Hort (Germany), Jordin Isip (USA), Lidy Jacobs (Netherlands), Sophie Kern (UK), Eva Lake (USA), Vanessa Lamounier (Netherlands), Matt Li[pps (USA), Sean Mackaoui (Spain), Max-o-matic (Spain), Taylor McKimens (USA), Cameron Windish Michel (USA), Agnes Montgomery (USA), Justin Mortimer (UK), Pedro Oliveira (Brazil), Julien Pacaud (France), David Plunkert (USA), Kareem Rizk (Austrailia), Matthew Rose (France), Brion Nuda Rosch (USA), Joe Ryyckebosch (USA), Katherine Streeter (USA), Mario Wagner (Germany), Oliver Wiegner (Germany), Johanna Wilhelm (Germany), Jessica Williams (USA), Bill Zindel (USA)

Opening Date: Friday, October 16, 2009

Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm

LocationCinders Gallery

Street: 103 Havemeyer St., Brooklyn, NY

Follow-up: NY Art Book Fair at P.S. 1

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This past weekend, Illustration FT Faculty Lauren Redniss and myself attended the New York Art Book Fair and Conference at P.S. 1.

There were a zillion great things to see and here are some favorites:

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  • Keiji Ito’s estactic utopia complete with rainbow bathers by the pool, parrots, zebras, and lush lawns growing pecan cookies at Gallery 360 of Japan: http://www.360.co.jp/e/exhibition.html

3 Keiichi Tanaami cover

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The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century at NYIH Oct. 6th and 7th

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The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, together with the Polish Cultural Institute, the National Book Critics Circle, and the new Literary Reportage concentration at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute invite you to attend:

AFTER KAPUŚCIŃSKI:
THE ART OF REPORTAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY


A Public Conversation
on the ins and outs of long-form and literary journalism
with leading authors of the genre


October 6 & 7, 2009
NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall
100 Washington Square East

This symposium, composed of three distinct panels over two evenings, offers an exciting public conversation about the state of the art of reportage amid a rapidly changing media landscape; the various approaches to and practices of long-form and literary journalism; and the ongoing legacy of renowned practitioners like Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. At a time when categorical differences between fiction and nonfiction are increasingly ambiguous–and the gap between their respective segments of the publishing market increasingly small–a discussion of reportage as a literary art form seems paramount.

Free and open to the public, this event coincides with the launch this fall of the Literary Reportage concentration at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and is being held in association with the Overseas Press Club of America and Words Without Borders, the online magazine of international literature.

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Last Minute: “The False Forest” by Ben Katchor at Princeton tonight

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Monday, October 5, 2009 at 6 pm

‘The False Forest’ and other stories

Picture-recitations by Ben Katchor

LECTURE SERIES: DOWN THE GARDEN PATH

at Betts Auditorium in the School of Architecture Building

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

Free and open to the public.

http://soa.princeton.edu/news.html