McSweeney’s Issue 33: The San Francisco Panorama

One of our favorite new-school purveyors of good old-fashioned journalism McSweeney's launched their special edition, 320-page "San Francisco Panorama" this week, making it the latest of the literary journal's quarterly releases. Already buzzed about, the McSweeney's team created the 15" x 22" broadsheet paper over five months with contributions from Stephen King, William T. Vollmann, Daniel Clowes and Roddy Doyle—over 150 writers, artists and photographers …

Culture Label One-Stop Museum Shop

by Fiona Killackey Why tackle crowded subways, road rage and the world’s most ferocious shoppers when Culture Label aggregates art and design objects from 75 of the U.K.'s top galleries, museums and libraries into one site? The brand-new enterprise edits the most unusual and beautiful pieces available from spaces such as V&A, the Tate, Saatchi Gallery and the British Museum so that shoppers can browse …

Artist Jason Yarmosky

Direct and intensely intimate, Jason Yarmosky's figurative paintings are emotional studies of his subjects. On the heels of "Orpheus", a painting we took a look at here earlier this year and that Yarmosky recently showed at the 25th annual "New Directions" exhibition at The Barrett Art Center in Upstate NY, Yarmosky moved into a new studio on the Lower East Side. He invited me over …