…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
Print your own customizable and frameable Joseph R. Biden Presidential Pardon, by artist Joey Skaggs, here: https://joeyskaggs.com/biden-presidential-pardon/.
If you’d prefer a free Trump Presidential Pardon, it’s here: https://joeyskaggs.com/trump-presidential-pardon/.
“Joey Skaggs: Stop BioPEEP,” the 10th film in the “Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond” oral history series, is screening at the New Jersey Film Festival at 7 pm on Friday, September 20, 2024. It’s also available to stream online for 24 hours. Details are here.
From a tiny joke to a mighty oak…
Wall-to-Wall Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Seed Art Show, Isabella Segalovich, Hyperallergic, August 30, 2024
Local artists get political in painstakingly crafted mosaics at the only state fair crop art display in the United States.
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota — From a rotating gallery of butter sculptures to a hall bursting with quilts and embroidery, the annual Minnesota State Fair is always awash with creative endeavors. But the line is always the longest at the crop art display, the only one of its kind at a state fair in the United States. Here, fairgoers crowd shoulder-to-shoulder, sipping honey-infused lemonade from the nearby beekeeping room as they inspect hundreds of painstakingly crafted mosaics made entirely out of Minnesota-grown seeds. And more than any other art on the fairgrounds, this richly nutty art form is often explicitly and proudly political. Click here for more.
Cartoonist Stan Mack, a man with an uncanny sense of the ironic, has a new book coming out June 11, 2024, published by Fantagraphics. It chronicles his much revered Village Voice comic strip called Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, which appeared weekly from 1974 to 1995. It’s a beautiful book that appropriately pays homage to his insight and talent. The book is available for pre-order here.
Columnist and author Joe Enright just published this wonderful interview with Stan: Tales of New York – an interview with cartoonist Stan Mack, Red Hook Star-Revue, April 9, 2024.
“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” (16:22) will screen at Miami Web Fest
In 1995, Dr. Joseph Bonuso, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), announced that he, along with 150 computer scientists and attorneys specializing in artificial intelligence, had developed a solution to the crisis of American jurisprudence, They were poised to radically revamp the entire judicial system using a distributed program running on a set of super computers that could deliberate on evidence and render swift, unassailable equal justice for all, putting judges in the back seat and relegating juries to history.
This is the tenth film in the oral history series “Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism oral history series“.