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...most complex artist. Publicly shy, he nevertheless makes himself the focus of much of his work; highly critical of consumer culture he nevertheless has tons of "merch" and a website to push it; most importantly he uses the "harmless" medium of comic books to explore the outer reaches of adult assumptions about race, sex and the American condition. New Yorkers recently had a rare opportunity to see Crumb face his contradictions and his legacy when he appeared at the New York Public Library in a conversation with Robert Hughes, the irascible essayist and TIME's art critic for more than...
Imagine a whip-smart economist with a sprawling imagination. Now imagine he's 9 years old and wants to know everything. That is the basic profile of Steven Levitt. A University of Chicago economist, Levitt, 37, is in fact an adult. But he has built his name by asking questions packed with curiosity and devoid of judgment: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their moms? Did crime in the 1990s go down because the number of abortions in the 1970s went up, or is that just a coincidence? Does parenting actually matter when...
...extra pizzazz comes to a project with an interesting legacy. “Family Guy” is something of a bridge between classic animated comedy like “The Simpsons” (to which it bears a number of striking similarities), and the new wave of Adult Swim comedies which tend to repel all but a select core of viewers after a single episode (“Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and “The Brak Show” are prime examples...
MacFarlane hopes that all the buzz from DVDs and merchandise will translate into increased ratings. And selling out? How will it feel going back to a network channel after the devotion engendered by its stint on Adult Swim...
...South for the École des Beaux Arts in Paris to study architecture. Richardson’s checks from home quickly dried up after the Civil War broke out, but instead of returning home, he headed to New York and then Massachusetts, where he spent most of his adult life...