For 24 years, the Providence, Rhode Island-based Load Records acted as an underground hub, amassing a catalog that connected the worlds of punk, experimental music, and contemporary art, all with an…
It’s been a long, strange trip for the cartoon character known as Pepe the Frog, widely known as the “sad frog meme” on the internet. What started as a drawing by the comics artist Matt Furie has…
All of the art collectives Ben Jones has been involved in—most visibly Paper Radio with Christopher Forgues and Paper Rad with Jacob and Jessica Ciocci—have been characterized by a weird mix of punk s…
The Paper Radio duo of Benjamin Jones and Christopher Forgues, with their DIY aesthetic and countercultural convictions—sometimes aggressive, sometimes mellow—helped transform alternative comics in th…
To see zoomable versions of the images in this post, please click on them. The East Coast art collective Paper Rad existed for less than a decade, from very roughly 2001 to 2008, but in that short…
“Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist's consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Jacob Ciocci is an artist based in Brooklyn and North Braddock…
DETORIORATION, THEY SAID brings together four US-based positions from a generation embarking on its thirties. The title of the exhibition refers to a set of artworks that articulate entropic effects w…
Performance art, gallery openings, Dumpster-diving for junk to turn into art—all of it is happening in an online world populated by computer-generated beings called avatars.
