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 ...

It’s not just a popular movie starring John Travolta. It was the widely read literature of working-class Americans during the first half of the 20th century and also the focus of an exhibit at the ...

“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 ...

Artist Richard Lillis created "A Straw for the Thirsty" for Private Detective Stories in 1945. Unlike many pulp artists, he saved his paintings. Robert Lesser Collection George Rozen's 1933 rendering ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour, authors of Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp. Courtesy Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour I’ll begin with the first question in the book, which yields a ...

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 ...

Counterculture bohemian Margaret Brundage was the first female pinup artist, tempting pulp readers with her scantily clad, whip-wielding vixens. Now, a new coffee-table book chronicles her life and ...

A paper moon is a make-believe moon, and a paper tiger is a make-believe threat. A paper airplane plan is bound to fail, and maybe it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. If I paper over something, ...