harvey

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just read about this fun show on artloversnewyork... it closes may 2nd.

i loved these harvey comics when i was very young - sad sack, little dot, richie rich, jackie jokers.

plus - artloversnewyork has some nice studio visits. i should have done more of that when i was in the city for the winter.

trash

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Jack Kirby torpedo dogs picked from his trash by Jim Woodring, via Tom Moody.

Francis Bacon's trash, auctioned.

Allan Stone, in the movie Who The #?&% Is Jackson Pollock, shows his Jackson Pollock painting that was taken from the East Hampton, Long Island garbage dump - "Everybody knew that Pollock dumped a lot of his unsuccessful things in, in the dump in, in East Hampton. You know, in those days, they weren’t, they weren’t worth anything really, you know?"

Calvin Tomkins on Robert Rauschenberg, in Off the Wall (page 85) - "sneaking into de Koonings studio when no one was there, he took a lot of photographs and stole a discarded drawing from the trash basket. 'it was just total idolizing,' he says"

time + space

Fragonard, The Love Letter, 1770


Wayne Boring, panel from Superman #141, 1960

Jack Kirby

Very happy to see Jack Kirby in the NYTimes on Sunday, and that the Masters of American Comics show has come to NYC; at the Jewish Museum and the Newark Museum (that's a pain, two different places). The Jewish Museum has a concurrent exhibition called Superheroes: Good and Evil in American Comics... Yay!

No Hal Foster or RF Outcalt, included... oh well, can't have everything. Versions of Outcalt's The Yellow Kid have shown up in my stuff... here and more literally here, for example. Kirby inspiration many many times.

Here is an interview with exhibition co-curator Brian Walker.

RELATED: Jack Kirby on anaba - 10/14/2004, 4/5/2005 (Jack Kirby and Grandma Moses should be in the Whitney Biennial), 7/14/2005, 12/13/2005… PLUS – the Meatballs of Others exhibition!!!

Meatballs in Space

Here you can see some of the great Jack Kirby's meatballs (in space).
Jack Kirby should be in museums. I feel a big connection between the prints of Japanese ukiyo-e artists like Hiroshige and Hokusai and Kirby - I wonder if he looked at them? Hey! Ukiyo-e is usually translated as "pictures of the floating world" and Kirby did pictures of floating worlds! That nails it!! I really like Kirby Krackle. This meatball probably comes closest to having Kirby Krackle.

RELATED: Mountain Man, Fairy Butler, and Sloth have all curated mini-exhibitions so I thought I would do the same. Please enjoy this Meatball Slideshow of work by Tom Moody, Pat Adams, Kandinsky, and Jack Kirby.

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby is one of my favorite artists and a big influence. Why isn't this stuff in art museums yet? It will be soon. If I had any money, I would buy a Kirby. Where can I see one for real? Probably at a comic book convention. Am I the only one that thinks Kirby may have been influenced by Japanese prints? Especially Hokusai and Hiroshige. Lot of parallels between American comics and ukiyoe.