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Julie Greicius

Julie Greicius was Art Editor for The Rumpus when it launched in January 2009. One year later, she became Senior Literary Editor, and later, Senior Features Editor. Julie also co-edited the first book published by The Rumpus, Rumpus Women, Vol. 1, featuring personal essays and illustration from twenty kick-ass contributors. Her writing been featured on The Rumpus, Midnight Breakfast, Stanford Medicine Magazine, and BuzzFeed, as well as in the anthology The 27th Mile. She lives in California and is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board.
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    Curator of Oddities

    Lena Reynoso’s website is a museum of the artist-and-academic’s original work, including portraits of forty-four presidents and a collection of found treasures, ephemera, research and illustrations that reflect her fascination with sideshows, circuses, science and other curiosities.

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    High Tea = High Noon

    Yvonne Lee Schultz knows that among fine manners and fine china, one must pack tasteful heat.

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    1929 All Over Again, In Japanese Literature

    From Adbusters: “As they endure the nightly mundanity of the convenience store or the daytime lobotomy of waving red sticks at traffic jams, the freeter part-timers know that Kanikosen is a novel aimed at them. But the full-time, white-collar “salarymen”…

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    That’s One Hypnotic Monster Truck Rally

    Australian artist Keith Loutit uses tilt-shift and time-lapse video techniques to make real life look like a lilliputian dream.

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    Schmo, Redux

    The hapless, plank-toothed, rubberband men of Jeff Ladoucer‘s art are beaten by clouds, tangled in knots, burned, and carried away by an elephant in Do The Apocalypse, his latest exhibit.

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    All In

    An artist who usually works in porcelain, Liu Jianhua stacks poker chips and dice for “Unreal Scene,” a stunning model of Shanghai, where gambling is forbidden. (via BoingBoing.)

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    The Pinup Promised-Land

    Still warm in her grave, Bettie Page’s mid-century pinup appeal is unlikely to cool off anytime soon. Artist Lauren Bergman puts pinups like Bettie on a pedestal,

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    An Apple as Eve

    Apple seeds and the parted pages of books, fleshy fingers and bald heads are among the symbols Alexi Worth uses to conjure a sometimes sinister sexuality.  In “Head and Shoulders,” the wrinkle of a head on a woman’s shoulder looks…

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    Pixelated Playground II – Invader

    On public facades across 40 cities worldwide, the French street artist Invader has cemented hundreds of ceramic-tile mosaics of Space Invader game characters. His latest project makes binary code from the tiles.

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    Pixelated Playground

    Katie Bush’s art, buried as it is beneath Technicolor camouflage and her maze-like website, makes you search, retreat and wonder what’s around every corner.

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    Da Bomb(s)

    Cocoon or coffin? The transformation inflicted on Nagasaki by the United States’ Fat Man in 1945 shuttered more than six years of war. In drastically different styles, artists Tom Sachs and Paul Fryer revived Fat Boy as personal sanctuary.

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    A Marriage of Drawing and Design

    Lauren Nassef and Isaac Tobin are illustrator and book designer, respectively. Together, the Chicago-based couple has fashioned multiple covers by which books would gladly be judged.