By: Tucker Cummings

“OH BABY, YOU… YOU GOT WHAT I NEED!”

By: William Nericcio

This Mexico-based artist put the “sur” in surrealism.

By: Robert Wringham

Grinding repetition and passive-aggressive monotony.

By: Devin McKinney

He invented a sound and lost his mind.

By: Mike Fleisch

He smacks you from the horrible places you don’t let your head go.

By: Elina Shatkin

“A woman whose life’s poetry never sank to prose.”

By: Adam McGovern

Stairways, backrooms, sofas and regular but uncommon stages.

By: Robert Wringham

“Let terror have his way, for he’s the best friend you’ve got.”

By: Adam McGovern

A torture-chamber of temporary adjustments.

By: Peggy Nelson

From 1958 to 1966 she worked on, and worked over, a single painting.

By: William Nericcio

The monkey grammarian plagued by conjunctions and disjunctions.

By: Mike Fleisch

“Real painters do not paint things as they are.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

Seventies soul, eloquent monsters, Talmudic etiquette-parsing, Samuel L. Jackson.

By: Robert Wringham

The sexagenarian amateur who revolutionized crime scene investigation.

By: Devin McKinney

Trills, swoops, jungle calls, and deviations from the straight line.