Jail Wall Turned Urban Canvas
A single wall fronting the jail cells of the former Mission Police Station at 1240 Valencia Street, San Francisco, serves as a canvas for the postings, paintings and graffiti that…
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Julie Greicius
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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.
How Western Pop Music is Being Used as ‘Touchless Torture’ by the American military
From Frieze Magazine: “As reported by the BBC, the Guardian, the Associated Press, Newsweek, The Nation, Mother Jones, SPIN and others (while mocked by right-wing columnists from the Chicago Tribune…
Dominoes for Pyros
In 1987 Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss used common household items and the laws of nature to form a 100-foot-long chain reaction. They lit it, filmed it, and…
Death Gets a Ticket on Guerrero
El Muertorider is born: watch artists Artemio Rodriguez and John Jota Leanos trick out a 1968 Chevy Impala.
Seen at Dusk
Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn’s new installation, “Language of the Birds,” at the intersection of Broadway, Grant and Columbus in downtown San Francisco is a flock of solar-powered books in…
Contemporary Art, A la Carte
Paper Magazine’s favorite artists and players in the art world tell us who and what they care about now and why, inviting us into the wider community of ideas and sensibilities…
Torn and Tethered
Stretched, strung-out, pinned-down, imprisoned and exploding, the work of artist E. V. Day has a little something to say about women, fashion and captivity.