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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, "I told him that my mother's misfortune took up the space of dreams"-- Marguerite Duras II, (1195). More humorous is Ellen Rothenberg's pile of pink erasers, each printed with the word "GUILT," in Gothic lettering. Art Spiegelman, famous as the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus, a cartoon retelling of the Holocaust, contributes sketches and studies...

Author: By Natasha Wimmer, | Title: ICA Holocaust Show Leaves Viewer Cold | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

Spiked! arrives with a cultural pedigree: cover art by Art (Maus) Spiegelman and liner notes by author-recluse Thomas (Gravity's Rainbow) Pynchon. "Yet there remains about Spike's work what is sometimes an almost uncomfortable complexity," proclaims Pynchon, later anointing Jones as "a conceptual artist with a head for business." One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. But Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Spike Up the Band | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...insurance man named Bob Muzikowski. The very white downtown corporations are persuaded to do the right thing, and since team names are to be those of African tribes, by mad and wondrous logic there are the Northwestern Mutual Life Pygmies, the Northern Trust Maasai, the Morgan Stanley & Co. Mau Maus and the First Chicago Near North Kikuyus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busters At Bat | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...wrote free-lance for Gaines in the '50s, and Kovacs and Mad begat Saturday Night Live and David Letterman (who is, physically as well as spiritually, Alfred E. You-Know-Who come to life). Without Gaines and Mad there might have been no National Lampoon, no Maus, no Ren & Stimpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perfect MAD Man | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...Maus II by Art Spiegelman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arts in Review: | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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