Hype: Melchior Lorck

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Yesterday saw the publication of the first four volume of a lavish, projected five-volume monographic work on the great Danish Renaissance printmaker and draughtsman Melchior Lorck (c. 1526/27-after 1583), published by the Royal Library and high end publisher Vandkunsten. Not only was Lorck a highly accomplished printmaker, he was also a wandering spirit and, crucially,…

Help Anders Nilsen Help the Americans Help Themselves!

comics and cartooning, current affairs, hype & linkage, pictorial arts

One of the Bunker’s favorite young(ish) cartoonists, Anders Nilsen, has started an art auction to support the current efforts by the US Government to reform the country’s health care system in favor of the universal scheme the country should have had a long time ago. The prospect of these vitally important measures crashing a burning…