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...Like his most famous creation, Fritz the Cat, Crumb seems to be running through multiple lives, as a wickedly dark commentator on America with an apparently inexhaustible supply of ideas - all of which are on display at the exhibition "Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Crumb's brilliant, savage but also truly comic strips earned him immediate cult status when they were first published in the U.S. in the late '60s. His creations suited the mood of the time - an ebullient rejection of the preceding conformist, suburban decades. He drew and wrote whatever...
...Ofili, creator of the notorious Virgin Mary with elephant dung that enraged New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani when it turned up in "Sensation." But the place that put Adjaye on the map was the so-called Elektra house, built for a pair of conceptual artists in the Whitechapel neighborhood that Jack the Ripper once prowled. It's plain at first sight that this is no cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly an unsightly street. It has no windows on the street side, where it presents...
...Ahead of His Time The German architect Mies van der Rohe died in 1969, but his influence can be seen on office towers from Chicago to Shanghai. His early work is examined in "Mies van der Rohe 1905-1938," which runs until March 2 at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. The show features models, photographs, plans and original drawings. Mies, as he's widely known, had the misfortune to be working in Berlin when the Nazis came to power. In 1938 he moved to the U.S. in search of more open-minded patrons. He found a niche at the Armour...
...From Hell," retells the story of Jack the Ripper by recontextualizing it into the social and political milieu of its time. Queen Victoria, the Freemasons, the Elephant Man and the beginnings of media hysteria get swirled into the atmospheric mists of Whitechapel, London. The comic version may well turn out to be the writer Alan Moore's magnum opus. Meticulously researched, it took five years to complete and totals over 500 pages, including copious footnotes. Moore first gained mainstream media exposure when his "Watchmen" series, about the killings of retired superheroes, established him as a master at orchestrating long-term...
...ordered. Especially if the doctor's name is Jekyll or Moreau. From Hell is Hollywood's latest search for Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed by the Hughes brothers, twins Allen and Albert, 29, who are best known, at least have been until now, for their violent urban dramas set in modern...