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Category: journal1 January 2024

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Author: Matthias Wivel

http://www.metabunkeren.dk

Matthias Wivel is the administrator of the Metabunker. He is Head of Research at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and a co-founder and the current chairman of the Danish Comics Council.

Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici

The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007.

Interview: El-P & Aesop Rock

Our 2003 in-depth interview with two of New York’s finest.

Continuous Creation — Titian’s Nuova Natura

On Titian’s aesthetic of the unfinished and Renaissance notions of the subjective.

Bleed Runner

On Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Also, read producer Charles de Lauzirika’s comments.

Damian Marley & Nas Interviewed

The Distant Relatives interviewed on their 2010 tour.

Fantask

Skriverier om butikken Fantask og dens placering i det danske kulturbillede.

The Miracle in Milan

Review of the 2011-12 Leonardo show at the National Gallery in London.

Hergé and the Order of Things

Hooded Utilitarian column on Hergé’s vision and the necessity of comics criticism that engages deep form.

Bruegel, Rembrandt, Crumb and Cartooning

Extended Hooded Utilitarian piece on R. Crumb’s Genesis and the cartoon tradition.

New Yorker Cartoons: A Legacy of Mediocrity

A deadening force at the heart of the art form, smothering the field in bourgeois mediocrity.

Hogarth’s Chicken Fat

An analysis of Hogarth’s rich imagery as both support and counterpoint to his storytelling.

Bellini in Rome

Thoughts on Giovanni Bellini and the grand Rome retrospective.

Interview: Muñoz & Sampayo

Read our 2001 conversation with the Argentine comics grand masters and Angoulême Grand prix winner(s).

Cézanne’s Card Players

On Cézanne, time, figure drawing, still lives, and the classics.

Jimmy Corrigan’s Spectacular Reality

Article on Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan.