Affinities (The Siglio Blog)
Teaching Image-Text, Hybrid Forms, Visual/Graphic Narratives?
Teaching a course that traverses the uncategorizable, the innovative, the spaces in between? Siglio titles are expansive, compelling, thought-provoking works that will engage students in surprising ways as they discover what image and text can do.
In Poets & Writers: “Siglio rejects the assumption that one artistic practice must kneel to the other”
“Siglio is a ‘wunderkammer’ . . . a cabinet of curiosities that expands and transforms what is expected of visual-verbal literature.”
Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On…
The Something Else Press has a lasting influence on independent publishers now. Here’s a list of reprints, facsimiles and other adjacent publications.
New Works by Richard Kraft: “Ubu/Trump” and “All the Yellow and Red Cards Issued to Donald Trump…”
Artist Richard Kraft has two new works about Donald Trump: one at the Racial Imaginary Institute, the other here free to download.
Robert Seydel: “True aesthetic ambidexterity”
James Gibbons writes THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY: “One of the uncanny successes of Seydel’s art lies in the way his sophistication and erudition are everywhere in evidence . . . and yet he could fashion . . . a body of work that harnesses . . . the affecting strangeness and elemental power of naive art.”
Suite Vénitienne: Intrusion of her own creation
“In her pursuit of strangers, Calle presents a kind of artistic Zeno’s paradox: the closer you get to someone else, the more you realize the distance separating you.” —Madeleine Schwartz in THE NY REVIEW OF BOOKS