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Worm: A Conversation with Edel Rodriguez and Riva Hocherman

At the Society 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY, United States
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Join award-winning artist Edel Rodriguez in conversation with executive editor at Henry Holt and Metropolitan Books Riva Hocherman as they discuss Edel’s recently released and first ever graphic novel, Worm. From “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a…

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Clayton: Godfather of Lower East Side Documentary

At the Society 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY, United States
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For decades, Clayton Patterson has, as his friend Ai Weiwei puts it, “relentlessly devoted himself to a kind of culture that examines authority.” Best known for his documentation of the Tompkins Square Riots in 1988, Clayton lived at the intersection of numerous underground cultures, from drag queens to punks, gangbangers to tattoo artists, breathing in…

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Words Are Pictures: Writing and Drawing Weimar Berlin

At the Society 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY, United States
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Before written language existed, people drew pictures, everywhere. Representational drawings evolved into pictograms, and some pictograms were abstracted into phonetic symbols which could be strung together to form words. The medium of comics takes these now apparently disparate elements—the picture and the word—and reunites them to create a form of expression greater than the sum…

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