Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman appears in the following:

American Icons: Superman

Thursday, April 06, 2017

Kurt Andersen goes up, up and away with Superman and finds out why "The Man of Steel" remains as popular and elusive as ever.

How Artists Are Mobilizing Against Trump

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Khadijah White, Art Spiegelman & Stephanie Ybarra discuss how art & culture will shape opposition to Trump’s presidency & what demonstrators can learn from past artists and movements.

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Art Spiegelman Pays Tribute to Si Lewen

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Artist and author Art Spiegelman pays tribute to Si Lewen with a remastered edition of "The Parade." 

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Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston's New Collaboration

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

The multi-award winning artist Art Spiegelman and critically acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston talk about their collaboration, “Wordless!”

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Gertie, The Dinosaur Who Gave Birth to a Mouse

Thursday, December 25, 2014

The first animated character wasn’t a mouse — it was a dinosaur, Gertie. Her creator thought cartoons would become a great art form, and was bitter when they went commercial.

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Gertie, the Dinosaur Who Gave Birth to a Mouse

Friday, June 27, 2014

Years before Mickey Mouse, Gertie the dinosaur amazed audiences who had never seen a drawing that moved. Her creator, Winsor McCay, thought cartoons would become a great art form — an...

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Guest Picks: Art Spiegelman

Monday, January 06, 2014

Artist Art Spiegelman was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about a retrospective of his work at The Jewish Museum and performing "Wordless" at BAM. He also told us what he's been reading and listening to -- "lotsa salsa" -- and what he liked about the show "Desperate Housewives." 

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Art Spiegelman at the Jewish Museum and BAM

Monday, January 06, 2014

Art Spiegelman talks about the exhibition “Co-Mix: A Retrospective” at The Jewish Museum, which celebrates his career and work. It's the first U.S. retrospective that spans Spiegelman’s career: from his early days in underground “comix” to the genesis of Maus to his provocative covers for The New Yorker to his artistic collaborations. He also talks about “Wordless” at BAM, an innovative hybrid of slides, talk, and musical performance created in collaboration with acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston. 

 

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Maurice Sendak Dies at Age 83

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

He made the monsters fun. Maurice Sendak, the child author and illustrator, has died at age 83. His books and style of illustration immediately evoked a whole world of creatures and characters, dark places that were part scary and part cozy. Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning creator of the graphic novel, Maus, comments on the life of Sendak.

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Art Spiegelman and Hillary Chute on MetaMaus

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Art Spiegelman revisits his Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, published 25 years ago. In MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus, edited and based on interviews by Hillary Chute, he probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process. MetaMaus includes a DVD with audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a trove of Spiegelman’s private notebooks and sketches.

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Collaborating with Pilobolus

Monday, July 12, 2010

Pilobolus artistic director Michael Tracy discusses the dance theater’s collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman and award-winning musician Dan Zanes for its current season at the Joyce Theater, July 12-August 7. Program 1, Hapless Hooligan in "Still Moving" features Pilobolus dancers interacting live with Spiegelman's drawings. Program 3, Contradance, is a collaboration with Dan Zanes.

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Guest Picks: Art Spiegelman

Monday, July 12, 2010

Art Spiegelman stopped by The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about some of his favorite picks.

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Classic Children’s Comics

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly have collected a volume of tales from the golden age of the comic book. The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics includes 60 complete stories from classic master comic book writers and artists from the 1930s through the 1960s, such as Carl Barks, John ...

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Art Spiegelman: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Art Spiegelman talks about how comics shaped who he is – and how he went from being a young MAD magazine-obsessed kid in Queens to a Pulitzer Prize winner. His new illustrated memoir is Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. He also has a new children’s ...

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Weatherman

Friday, November 21, 2008

Bill Ayers talks about how he became a flashpoint in the presidential election this year – and whether there's anything else we need to know about his relationship with Barack Obama! Also: find out how Josef Stalin went from being a nondescript peasant boy to the most powerful of all ...

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Art Spiegelman on Comics

Saturday, December 08, 2001

Kurt Andersen and writer and cartoonist Art Spiegelman talk about the narrative and artistic spell of comics. 

Spiegelman is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus and Maus II. Since 1992 he has been a contributing editor and cover artist for The New Yorker. He is also the co-founder and editor ...

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Spiegelman, Chabon, Comics

Saturday, December 08, 2001

Kurt Andersen and illustrator Art Spiegelman storm the two-dimensional storytelling universe of comic books and comic strips. We fight evil with Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer and we'll hear from novelist Michael Chabon about the superheroes that inhabit The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Plus, a look at Tony Kushner's ...