Arts

A bizarre synthesis of psychedelia and electronica, Ultimate Reality again unites visual artist Jimmy Joe Roche with electro-spazz musician Dan Deacon.

Come join ALARM in Chicago this Saturday, December 8, for the opening reception of This Is Not Art 2. The art exhibit features work of the Delicious Design League, a graphic design duo that specializes in album and concert poster art.

E-mail expert David Gewirtz analyzes the White House’s apparent lack of electronic security in his latest book, Where Have All the E-mails Gone? And with the recently reported White House claim that 5,000,000 e-mails may be missing, that’s a good question.

LaShonda Katrice Barnett (shown left), a professor of Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and a musician in her own right, never intended on becoming a historian of black female songwriters. Instead, the calling found her.

Originally a fifteen-part serial in New York Times Magazine earlier this year, Michael Chabon’s antique adventure tale Gentlemen on the Road has found itself bound and on bookshelves.

Scion Installation, an innovative art tour encouraging artistic expression, is making a stop in Miami for Art Basel on December 7. Scion’s fourth installment is titled It’s A Beautiful World.

In an age of on-demand everything, it’s hard to remember that not so long ago, you couldn’t buy a Ramones T-shirt at your local big box chain store.

Following the critical success of the semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale (2005), writer/director Noah Baumbach furthers his decade-long tour of upper-middle-class dysfunction in Margot at the Wedding.

Romances, the 2004 collaboration between Norwegian composer John Erik Kaada and vocal maestro Mike Patton, was what one could expect from an alliance of the two genre-busting musicians: a sound collage of moody, noirish elements.