art Archives • Ink 19

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Archikulture Digest
- October 7, 2018
Oscar Wilde flies high and crashed to the ground after an ill-conceived lawsuit.
Pentecostal
- Archikulture Digest
- February 6, 2018
Art and politics collide when an ancient painting compromises refugee’s attempts to flee a war.
Nots
- Music Reviews
- January 19, 2017
Cosmetic (Goner). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
White Glove Test: Louisville Punk Flyers 1978-1994
- Print Reviews
- April 29, 2015
Low-budget posters for lo-fi bands that made the 1980’s bearable in Louisville Kentucky.
For No Good Reason
- Screen Reviews
- April 21, 2014
A shadow documentary of Hunter S. Thompson told by his longtime collaborator Ralph Steadman.
Levitated Mass
- Screen Reviews
- April 4, 2014
Artist Michael Heizer moves a 340 ton rock from Riverside, California to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Carl F Gauze finds a documentary on the process its own enigmatic work of art.
Renoir
- Screen Reviews
- April 18, 2013
A view into the last few year of French Impressionist Auguste Renoir’s life. Carl F Gauze is beguiled by its stillness.

Animals and Objects In and Out of Water
- Print Reviews
- February 19, 2010
Carl F Gauze recommends this collection of posters from the hottest graphic artist of the year, Jay Ryan.
Grail Pages
- Print Reviews
- September 10, 2009
The inside skinny on collectors of original comic book art and Carl F Gauze‘s take on the guys who dig pictures of men who wear their underwear outside their pants.
The Soddyssey and Other Tales of Supernatural Law
- Print Reviews
- August 24, 2009
Bruce Phillips goes all goony over this new collection of Batton Lash’s pioneering creepy/funny comic series.
The Compact Duchamp: Amp After Amp
- Print Reviews
- January 6, 2009
A slim volume of black and white collage art gets Carl F Gauze all hot and bothered about Dada.
The Compact Duchamp: Amp After Amp
- Print Reviews
- January 6, 2009
A slim volume of black and white collage art gets Carl F Gauze all hot and bothered about Dada.
The Best of Write Now!
- Print Reviews
- August 26, 2008
Hey kid! Wanna write comics? Carl F Gauze suggests you read Danny Fingeroth‘s collection of interviews and articles from Write Now!, a magazine for Super Hero cartoonists, first.
Indie Girl
- Print Reviews
- April 1, 2008
Arne Johnson and Karen Macklin lure young women away from the sofa and to the drawing board. Andrew Coulon thinks the time is ripe.

Paul Duncan
- Music Reviews
- December 15, 2006
Be Careful What You Call Home (Home Tapes). Review by Aaron Shaul.
The Science of Sleep
- Screen Reviews
- October 17, 2006
In Michel Gondry’s new film, a young man lives in a dream world as he pursues his artistic neighbor. Good date movie, sayeth Carl F Gauze, before collapsing back into existential ennui.
Striking Images
- Print Reviews
- September 6, 2006
Marshall Presnell finds hidden truths about America on the back of a matchbook. Or, in this case, a handsomely printed volume full of reproductions of the best (and worst) of vintage matchbook art.
Heavy Metal Thunder
- Print Reviews
- June 28, 2006
Metal up your… bookshelf? For Linda Tate, the memories come flooding back after immersing herself in the denim n’ leather goodness of this anthology of heavy metal album covers.
Last Life in the Universe
- Screen Reviews
- July 6, 2005
Master cinematographer Christopher Doyle collaborates with upcoming Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanauang for the first time on Last Life in the Universe. Aaron Shaul thinks it might be the best film he’s seen so far this year.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of Natural History
- Music Reviews
- December 21, 2004
Aiming to Answer Common Questions (Web of Mimicry). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Simply Red
- Music Reviews
- December 13, 2019
Blue Eyed Soul (BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
Dreamerz&Co
- Music Reviews
- December 12, 2019
Demons. Review by Stacey Zering.
Rip It Up: The Specialty Records Story
- Print Reviews
- December 11, 2019
A love of gospel music gave Art Rupe his start in the music business. It lead to Specialty Records and his cast of Hall of Famers.
Letters to Cleo
- Music Reviews
- December 11, 2019
OK Christmas (Dot Rat). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Big Star
- Music Reviews
- December 10, 2019
In Space (Omnivore). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Best of Film 2019
- Screen Reviews
- December 10, 2019
Lily and Generoso select their ten favorite features, a collection of supplemental films, and a best repertory release of 2019.
An American Werewolf in London
- Screen Reviews
- December 9, 2019
The horror-comedy classic gets new life in this Blu-ray reissue.
The Spitfire Grill
- Archikulture Digest
- December 9, 2019
The Spitfire Grill is a sprightly musical with heart, soul and some decent side dishes.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
- Archikulture Digest
- December 8, 2019
The Little Woman have all grown up and now deal with grown-up issues like marriage and spinsterhood, and how wonderful owning a Proper English Estate might be.
Derek Menchan: A Special Interview
- Interviews
- December 6, 2019
The multi-instrumentalist opens up on influences that shaped his The Griot Swings the Classics.