Patton Oswalt, Patron of the Arts
by Adam Frucci Here is a pretty adorable story about four artists/Patton Oswalt superfans who got in touch with the comedian and are now producing all sorts of projects for him that he gives to people...
View ArticleRicky Gervais Loves Twitter After All
by Hallie Cantor Ricky Gervais' admission that Twitter is actually pretty cool after all (welcome to 2011, RG) quickly morphs into a meditation on the meaning of art, criticism and creative play. Give...
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NY Museum of Conan Art Unveils First Exhibit
by Hallie Cantor Remember January 2010 and that whole Team Coco thing? Turns out a lot of people were supporting Conan with more than tweets. At least 50 pieces of Conan artwork are going to be...
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The Lost Art of the Caricature
by Jake Tuck Who hasn’t at some point found himself in a rousing debate about whether James Gillray or Thomas Nast is the father of political cartooning? Or whether David Levine or Al Hirschfeld is...
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The Weird and Mirthful Subversions of Maurizio Cattelan
by Kate Goyette What do you get when you cross an Italian artist with a penchant for subversion and an architectural gem known for it’s hierarchical space? No, wait, I bet you’ve heard this one...
View ArticleNow It's Even Easier to Make Your Own Louis C.K. Wallpaper
by Hallie Cantor Oh, here's 50 pieces of Louis C.K. fan art. Page three is where it starts getting a little weird (if a picture of a totally naked Louie holding out a bitten apple in the garden of...
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Check Out This Comedian-Inspired Art, Art Appreciators
by Hallie Cantor "This sculpture of Louis C.K.'s head as a melting scoop of ice cream will pair beautifully with the de Kooning in my collection," muses a small goateed private art curator in my...
View ArticleComedian Myq Kaplan Starts a Kickstarter to Figure Out What Kickstarter...
by Jesse David Fox Here are things Kickstarter implicitly considers art: Hawaiian bitters, a solar powered sound installation, a mix-tape of whale songs, a pre-Burning Man roller disco, and a weapon...
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David Foster Wallace and the Comedy Nerd
by Blythe Roberson Mike Schur, showrunner of Parks and Recreation, is obsessed with David Foster Wallace. At Harvard, he made Wallace an honorary member of the Lampoon and wrote his thesis about...
View ArticleInside the Judd Apatow Art Show
by Bradford Evans Gallery 1988 held a Judd Apatow tribute art show in Los Angeles last week, and here's a nice little mini-documentary about the event, which Seth Rogen, Martin Starr, and Apatow...
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Here Are All the Pieces from Gallery 1988's 'SNL' Art Show
by Bradford Evans Gallery 1988, Katie Cromwell and Jensen Karp's LA-based pop culture art gallery, unveiled an SNL-themed art show this weekend, featuring over 80 pieces inspired from the show by...
View ArticleThe New 'Always Sunny' Promos Are Super Artsy
by Bradford Evans It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for its ninth season this September on FX's new all-comedy network FXX, and the gang filmed a series of artsy black-and-white promos in the...
View ArticleWatch Louis C.K. Play a Toilet Artist Named David Cross in an Early '90s MTV...
by Bradford Evans Here's a recently-unearthed clip from an early '90s MTV show in which a 20something Louis C.K. plays a toilet artist named David Cross. What more could you want from a YouTube video?...
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Here's Some Art from Gallery 1988's Edgar Wright Art Show
by Bradford Evans Gallery 1988, the LA-based pop culture art gallery opened a new exhibit Tuesday called "The Official Edgar Wright Art Show," featuring hundreds of pieces paying tribute to the...
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New York "Comedy Club" To Open For Doll Standup Fans
by Elise Czajkowski New York City plays home to some weird comedy shows, but this one is by far the creepiest. An art installation called "Comedy Club" will open in October in midtown Manhattan, and...
View ArticleWatch Billy Eichner, Fred Armisen, and Aubrey Plaza Talk Comedy As Art
by Elise Czajkowski Funny or Die's John Ramsey sat down with Billy Eichner, Fred Armisen, and Aubrey Plaza at the recent New Yorker Festival to talk about, or more accurately, around the idea of...
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Talking to Wayne White About Cartooning, 'Pee-wee's Playhouse,' and Humor's...
by Megh Wright Prior to the release of the 2012 documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing, artist Wayne White's work had much more mainstream recognition than his name. A comedian of the art world and vice...
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A 3D Animator Has Created an Impressively Realistic 'Futurama' World
by Megh Wright Russian animator Alexey Zakharov recently decided to recreate the Planet Express Ship from Futurama, and the result is pretty impressive. Check out a short clip of the ship in an...
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Puck Magazine and the Birth of Modern Political Cartooning
by Alex Dueben In the late 19th Century, long before Mad Magazine and the Daily Show, there was Puck. The magazine helped to change the very nature of political cartooning, was at the forefront of...
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Buy One of Dean Fleischer-Camp's Weird and Hilarious Inspirational Posters
by Megh Wright Looking for some inspirational and/or terrifying new art to hang on your walls? Filmmaker and co-creator of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer-Camp is launching a brand new...
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