Fun and games at The Abby, one of the off site venues

Oscar Wilde flies high and crashed to the ground after an ill-conceived lawsuit.

Art and politics collide when an ancient painting compromises refugee’s attempts to flee a war.

Cosmetic (Goner). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Low-budget posters for lo-fi bands that made the 1980’s bearable in Louisville Kentucky.

A shadow documentary of Hunter S. Thompson told by his longtime collaborator Ralph Steadman.

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.

A view into the last few year of French Impressionist Auguste Renoir’s life. Carl F Gauze is beguiled by its stillness.

Carl F Gauze recommends this collection of posters from the hottest graphic artist of the year, Jay Ryan.

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.

Bruce Phillips goes all goony over this new collection of Batton Lash’s pioneering creepy/funny comic series.

A slim volume of black and white collage art gets Carl F Gauze all hot and bothered about Dada.

A slim volume of black and white collage art gets Carl F Gauze all hot and bothered about Dada.

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.

Arne Johnson and Karen Macklin lure young women away from the sofa and to the drawing board. Andrew Coulon thinks the time is ripe.

Be Careful What You Call Home (Home Tapes). Review by Aaron Shaul.

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.

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.

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.

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.