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Posted April 24 at 12:40 pm by Brian J Barr

Reminder for tonight: Susan Robb, whose mug was on the cover of our Spring Arts issue, will be unveiling The Challenge Nature Provides, a collection of photography and installations at Lawrimore Project.

For anyone who read our profile on Robb, this show will feature the much-much-anticipated installation piece she designed to be powered by her dealer's poop (or, as my boss-man Mark Fefer dubbed it: Crap Power). Prepare your mind...

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Posted Jan. 23 at 8:58 am by Chris Kornelis

Click here for a slideshow, featuring some Crumb classics.

From The Weekly Wire:

"R. Crumb's Underground"
Where: Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, www.fryeart.org
When: Saturday through April 27
Cost: Free

I could never get into my brother’s comic books, with all those rippling, shaded muscles and dark backstories. Yet the 1960s cartoon caricatures of Robert Crumb, which did appeal to me”�I even named my cat Fritz”�had way more depth than all the shading in the world could have afforded my brother’s superheroes. With characters based on American archetypes”�Flakey Foont, Angelfood McSpade, Devil Girl, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat”�Crumb explored the complexities of the human condition. Of course, I didn’t entirely grasp all that when I was 10. The Frye’s "R. Crumb’s Underground" exhibit will be more than just comics, though; there’s a dark backstory to boot. “I was quite miserable for a good chunk of my youth,”� Crumb told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I was chronically depressed between the ages of 17 and 25. Suicidal depressed ... I felt like an invisible ghost moving but not able to affect anything around me ... I lived those years on paper.”�
— JEN HARPER

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Posted Dec. 12, 2007 at 11:46 am by Rachel Shimp

I'd like to to apologize to the hardworking people over at the downtown artspace McLeod Residence for incorrectly printing in this week's Wire that the reception for their current exhibit—artist Cassandra Nguyen's Giant Squid, along with Sami Khoury's "Glimpses of China" photographs—will be tonight. In fact, folks recited squid poetry and drank squid ink cocktails last Friday, an event I unfortunately missed due to Jersey Boys (post on that in a minute!).

The shows will be up through December 29. Once more, here's the poem by Tennyson, "The Kraken," that was printed as a preview.

“Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous and secret cell
Unnumber’d and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the lumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.”�

Now, if someone has the exact recipe of a squid ink cocktail, and a description of how said beverage tastes, my curiosity is raging!

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Posted Dec. 10, 2007 at 2:44 pm by Adriana Grant

Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley, and Greg Lundgren, (A.K.A. PDL) staged "Portable Confession Units" this past summer at Bumbershoot. I for one, had a pretty fantastic (blind) conversation in one of their booths. Tonight these three artists visit CHAC as part of John Boylan's ongoing series of conversations about art.

Tonight's topic: Confessions
Monday, December 10, 7-9 p.m.
Capitol Hill Arts Center
Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC), 1621 12th Avenue
Free.

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