Unknown artist, “Untitled” (Woman holding pig, cop in pursuit) (1960–75), tempera on illustration board, 15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.94 cm) Postwar pulp art south of the border was distinctly surreal. In ...

“Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains, and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art through Aug. 31, fairly sings with what Nabokov called the exhilaration of Philistine ...

Along the canal district in Holyoke on Race Street is a new art gallery, PULP Art + Object, which held its grand opening on May 4. The gallery’s inaugural exhibit is by self-taught artist Dave Laro, ...

The term "pulp fiction" might bring to mind Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film, but what his title references is a genre of popular novels in the 1930s an '40s with garish, eye-catching covers. The ...

Violent, sadistic, lustful, and wildly entertaining, America’s id is on parade at the Brooklyn Museum. “Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains, and Victors,” an exhibition of paintings made for the covers of pulp ...

A blonde in a red strapless gown grasps the receiver of an emergency telephone, but her call to the cops has been interrupted. From behind her, a beefy brute with a scar on his cheek clamps a meaty ...

Q: Why the name “Black Pulp!”? A: We came up with the name “Black Pulp!” because the material we’re focusing on is pulp. A lot of it has to do with pulp fiction, a lot of the work in here is on paper, ...

A very cool exhibition of pulp art opens tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum, called Pulp Art: Vamp, Villains, and Victors. The collection is of paintings from the 1920s to 1940s that mostly served as ...

Aidan Anne Frierson at work in the Chicago Pulp studio. Credit: Reema Saleh In a basement studio in Bridgeport, Aidan Anne Frierson and Dave King are turning wet, squelchy pulp into handmade paper. On ...

Rock music was considered disreputable by the arbiters of popular culture back in the day. They dismissed the evolving genre as low art–much like the pulp sci-fi and thriller fiction found on local ...

Robot uprisings, demon armies, women fighting dragons and men striding the cosmos have never looked cooler, or lovelier, than in the pulp magazine cover art going on display at the University of ...