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  Associated Press

  Priest and abstract-expressionist painter Bill Moore dies

  Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest and prominent abstract expressionist who spent decades spreading spiritualism through his paintings, has died at age 71. Moore died Sunday at a Southern California hospice, his longtime friend and art representative, Tom Irwin, told The Associated Press on Monday. A retrospective, “My Last Art Beat: Still Touching and Feeding Souls,” is on exhibit at the Progress Gallery in Pomona, California, until the end of October.

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  Entertainment

  Elle

  Aline Kominsky-Crumb Invented the Hot Mess

  The artist looks back on her five-decade career spent thrusting the secret, provocative, and laugh-out-loud funny parts of womanhood into the spotlight.

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  News

  Benzinga

  ESPAÑOL • Noticias del Día: Brasil y Líbano Avanzan Legalmente, Kali Uchis, Keith Haring, Robert Crumb, y Más

  Las ultimas noticias sobre cannabis, cañamo, CBD, psicodelicos, y otras tematicas verdes, ahora en Benzinga en Español, via El Planteo.El Libano Legaliza la Produccion de Cannabis Medicinal En un movimiento sin precedentes dentro de su region, el parlamento libanes aprobo esta semana la ley que permitiria el cultivo de marihuana con fines medicinales. Lo que se busca principalmente con la medida es aplicar una inyeccion de capitales a la economia en crisis del pais medioriental a partir del come

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  Entertainment

  Associated Press

  New Dua Lipa, 'Just Mercy' among streaming options this week

  Yes, the coronavirus pandemic has canceled concert tours, shut down movie theaters and closed down some bookstores, but there's still plenty to listen to, watch and read while self-distancing. This week's releases include new albums from Pearl Jam and Dua Lipa, several worthwhile films available for rent and a new novel that tells a story of isolation set against the backdrop of another crisis. There are also some older offerings, from a classic Marilyn Monroe film to one of Scarlett Johansson

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  Benzinga

  Art And Cannabis Getting Extra: Crumb's $690,000 Weed Drawing, Keith Haring's Bongs Line

  Robert Crumb’s imagery is one of the first places most of us will go to when thinking of the stoner culture aesthetic. Born in 1943, Crumb rose to fame as an underground comic book artist and illustrator, leading the underground comics movement, and collaborating in many album covers from the psychedelic rock scene. The iconic “Stoned Agin!” drawing was originally conceived as an inside back cover for a 1971 edition of Your Hytone Comix, and was known to many for its endless reproductions in p

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  World

  The Daily Beast

  Fun Books About the Bible (Yes, Really)

  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/AmazonToo often we tiptoe around religious subjects. They’re too big. Too important. We have a faith-based anxiety about dragging them into the light. And we certainly don’t think of religion in the same breath with pleasure. Here are three books that broach the subject in ways that ironically render these looming issues in human scale. They are, in fact, serious fun.AmazonThe Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Norton)Whenever I mention this book, peop

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  Indiewire

  The Greatest Biopics Ever Made — IndieWire Critics Survey

  With "First Man" now in theaters, we asked more than 30 critics to pick their favorite biopics ever made, and their answers run the gamut from "Amadeus" to "Schindler's List."

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  The Atlantic

  Ghost World Endures for Its Cynicism—and Pathos

  “This is so bad it’s almost good,” Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) says with a laugh to her best friend Enid (Thora Birch) at their high-school graduation, marveling at the unironic chintziness of the band onstage. “This is so bad, it’s gone past good and back to bad again,” Enid snarks back. If the early minutes of Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 classic of disaffection Ghost World have any dramatic tension at all, it lies in that never-ending debate: What enjoyment, sincere or otherwise, can we draw from ou

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  Lifestyle

  HuffPost

  Meet The Feminist Artist Whose Crass Comics Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

  Aline Kominsky-Crumb created the first ever autobiographical comic made by a woman.

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  Politics

  HuffPost

  'Big Bully' Donald Trump Gets A Swirly In This 1989 Comic (NSFW)

  Robert Crumb skewers the Republican presidential candidate in an old-school comic gem.

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