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The legend of the lens himself, Corky Lee. The Queens Museum of Art is currently exhibiting “Asian Pacifically New York: The Photography of Corky Lee” through August 14. In the city, everybody knows Corky. He’s at nearly every Asian Pacific American event. Has been for decades. His pictures have run everywhere from Time magazine, The New York Times, The Village Voice and the Associated Press. Corky’s 1975 picture of the old Pagoda movie theater in Manhattan’s Chinatown became the cover of my second book, This Is a Bust. Yes, the museum is in the outerborough of Queens, but you haven’t seen New York until you’ve seen Queens, and you haven’t seen Asian Pacific America’s story on the East Coast until you’ve seen Corky’s work. The Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens NY 11368 Telephone: (718) 592-9700 http://www.queensmuseum.org/ info@queensmuseum.org Corky likes cool cats. Jimmy Mirikatani, former homeless artist, concentration-camp internee and subject of the documentary “The Cats of Mirikatani,” in 2007. Another Corky classic. Sikhs at a 9/11 candlelight vigil in Central Park.
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Stan Sakai, one of the more unheralded comics artists and creator of Usagi Yojimbo finally has an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum. It’s another pop culture exhibition on display at a museum. Just a a few years ago, comics weren’t okay at museums – it was controversial, and now it’s ok. Toys are fine too.
Here are some photo highlights (the Geof Darrow drawing is amazing)
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Cool looking camera with a poo design on the corner. The poo design is something of your own creation since you can download the plans and get them laser cut yourself. Then salvage some parts some from an older disposable camera to end up with a cool looking camera that shoots arty. This doesn’t look too easy to put together, but for the serious gear head, this looks like fun and probably much cheaper than some of those arty cameras out there. Design by Japanese studio – Kitdastudio. (Popphoto – KDS POTO2)
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The Japanese American National Museum is hosting an exhibition of the work of Stan Sakai, the creator of Usagi Yojimbo. The rabbit samurai character is an often forgotten about property in the scheme of educational comics. Perhaps it’s because it’s American created versus Japan, but it does use Japanese history. Maybe it’s because of it’s time period and it being overshadowed by Maus, and a slew of comics about WWII Japan. Yet JANM is covering it. It begins July 9th and he’ll be doing a talk at 2pm. Check out more at (JANM – Stan Sakai)
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