/  by Michael Arthur

Spent the day on Governor’s Island today, visiting a friend who has a summer studio residency there. It was great to get the run of the place with no one else around—it was super fun riding the ferry with a small handful of folks. I don’t usually draw in pencil, but I figured I’d give it a shot in honor of all the artists out there making new things…

/  by Michael Arthur

lincolncenter:

We love these drawings by Michael Arthur ("Inklines" on Flickr, Twitter, and Tumblr) of three of this year’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors performers: Amanda Palmer, Jason Isbell, and Nick Lowe.

 

Lincoln Center posted the scanned and cleaned versions of my drawings of Nick Lowe, Amanda Palmer and Jason Isbell. Thanks to Bill Bragin,Marian Skokan and everyone over at Lincoln Center Out of Doors for inviting me in!

Photographer Bernie DeChant Takes the New Panasonic GX7 for a Spin in Japan /  by Michael Arthur

This feature and documentary is about my studio-mate who was asked to head over to Kyoto to play with a new camera from Panasonic. He’s an extraordinarily gifted photographer. Congrats Bernie!

/  by Michael Arthur

It’s the tenth anniversary of the big blackout. That means I’ve been a New Yorker for a long time. This here is a video I made for Balthrop, Alabama’s Electricity which I offer today as a hat tip to those days without power.

My favorite memory of the blackout was actually the next day, after my power returned. I turned on the TV for a news update and found myself watching the only channel I could get—a public access culture station. They were broadcasting an old performance of the Royal Ballet and I recognized a very young version of my then new friend Georgina Parkinson dancing the lead. I had met Georgina when I was drawing American Ballet Theatre and we had become close friends.

I called her to tell her that she was on my television.

"You’re kidding?!" she said.

"No, really!" I replied. "I turned on my TV and there you were."

"You have electricity??" she squealed as if her presence on television was a side note to the big story.

I miss George and I’m grateful for her perspective on things. And I’m glad we have electricity.

/  by Michael Arthur

joespub:

"Sometimes the fast and simple drawings capture the most. This drawing of the charismatic Champagne Jerry is a case in point. Drawn during Champagne Jerry’s first solo set at the Pub, this brush drawing catches the essence of Neal Medlyn’s character as he invents it. I remember thinking I was going to add color and then thinking again. I’m glad I went for restraint—not a characteristic Neal Medlyn is known for, but it works here!"

Champagne Jerry at Joe’s Pub…

/  by Michael Arthur

fantagraphics:

Certain books have a gravity just by their presence, and things are just a bit more weighty around the office since we got our advance copies of Janet Hamlin's Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals 2006-2013. Hamlin’s artwork is the only official visual record of the legal hearings of suspected terrorists, including those accused of being responsible for the attacks on 9/11, taking place at the offshore military installation that houses the world’s most controversial prison. These drawings are history, and this is the first time they have been published together, along with commentary and background from Hamlin and others.

Designed by Jacob Covey and covered in prison-jumpsuit orange, this important and essential book is due out in October and can be pre-ordered here.