Gary Baseman’s artwork is amazingly insidious: It’s part of the Cranium board game, corporate logos and ad campaigns for the likes of Disney and Starbucks, and the Teacher’s Pet animated television series and movies. It commonly includes elements like dogs leaking worms and cats dripping blood, with bones popping out, naughty skeletons, and other creatures … Read more
Rock ‘n’ roll was always meant to be heard and seen. While Hip Art That’s Square, a show last year at Goldstein, examined the art of the album cover through the eyes of a local collector, this exhibit, organized by the Museum of Design in Atlanta, focuses on that more public and transient medium, the … Read more
"If I see that tie one more time, I’ll shoot myself.” My husband Jon was browsing through photos from our recent wedding, lamenting his last-minute decision to rent a tux rather than buy a suit. “Look at that,” he groaned. “Did I somehow not notice it was made of pressed plastic?” I laughed, but lightly, … Read more
Vast and stark, repetitive and meditative, this pair of video installations lulls viewers into transcending their own boredom. In The Desert Sweepers, a crew of street sweepers in orange vests gently rake sand into small piles in an endless, digitally enhanced desert. Tse herself appears in Echo, playing cello in a stunning alpine valley, accompanied … Read more
Marc writes: In between consulting the Oracle in Delphi, Greece, I found time to read the latest issue of The Rake. Author(s) and Location: Marc Kotsonas
Jon, of Minneapolis, writes: I just got back from visiting some sites along the silk road. This one is in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The kaylon minaret (or “tower of death”) is in the background. Also pictured: on the great wall near simatai (northeast of beijing), in China. Author(s) and Location: Jon Sawyer
Tanis writes: I grew up in Anoka. My entire family enjoys reading your magazine. I thought I would show my devotedness by taking the Rake with me to Clare Island in County Mayo on the big island of Ireland. I have a few photos and was wondering if you would be interested in publishing one … Read more
Laura Donovan, of Marine on St. Croix, writes: My family and I just returned from a 4 city tour of China. I have sent two photos. The first photo is at the Pearl factory in Guilin, China. Pictured is our guide, Flora and myself, reading the Rake, of course. The second one is at the … Read more
Sara Stiles, of Edina, writes: For your wonderful magazine: Giddy for Gondolas! I visited Venice, Italy in late September this year, on a tour with 46 other people. I caught up on a little Rake reading before boarding my gondola, and left my copy of the Rake at St. Mark’s Square for the locals to … Read more
Kate Hearth shared some extracurricular reading material with her son, Nick, in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Nick was working at a field school of the University of California-Riverside Archaeology Department, about 25 miles west of Cancun. Kate and husband Steve visited Nick and helped him and his work partner map several Mayan dwellings at … Read more