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In a special visual edition of the Generation Gap column, renowned Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak and I team up to bring you a tale on the very edge of natural history, a story about haunted 18th-century illustrator of bug and bird, Eleazar Albin.
Now that It is over—now that the circus has come and gone, its glaring lights, its grips and its roadies; now that the visiting dignitaries have made their dignified departures and the newspapers have returned to publishing news
Although we all talked about keeping in touch, we knew it was really a goodbye dinner.
About a year after the breakup, I started keeping a text message journal.
Why has the work of Robert Vickrey, one of the last living masters of egg tempera, remained so obscure?
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Marwa Arsanios and Vartan Avakian are still young. They belong to a generation of artists who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and their unique experience with artistic research in Lebanon is revealing new narratives for a catastrophic historical episode.
One unintended consequence of David Ross’s appearance on the Colbert Report last year has been the misunderstanding of intention.