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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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    Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling Discuss Lolita

    “I think it’s shocking. I’m glad it’s shocking.” (via The New Republic) Part two is here.

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    Calvin Tomkins on William Kentridge

    The January 18 edition of the New Yorker (online for subscribers) has a superb, in-depth profile of South African artist William Kentridge by Calvin Tomkins. Kentridge, who worked in drawing, print, film, theater production and direction, is best known for…

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    69 Love Songs, Illustrated

    If your heart lingers well below the baritone range, then you probably love the music of The Magnetic Fields. You’re not alone. A collection of “mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers” have made it their mission to illustrate every song…

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    Eustace Tilley, Your Way

    Eustace Tilley appeared on the first New Yorker cover, in 1925, and has returned for nearly every anniversary issue since. For the third year in a row, the New Yorker is inviting readers to create their own versions of Eustace.…

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    “I draw on cups. Yes.”

    Cheeming Boey does astonishing, finely detailed artwork on white Styrofoam coffee cups. For most, he draws freehand with only a black Sharpie pen. For others, he does painstaking pointillism. But for a very few, he engraves the cup with a…

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    The Fiction Project

    When the Art House Co-op talks about making art accessible, they’re not just talking about viewing and consuming. They’re all about generating inspiration for artists of every kind by creating projects that will get people making, creating and writing. The…

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    64 by 64

    Resisting the year-end, best-of list, Jeff Hamada at BOOOOOOOM has collected 64 photos by 64 photographers all discovered, though not necessarily created, in 2009. They are beautiful, strange, eerie, theatrical, funny, bizarre, sexy, and 57 other wonderful things. And if…

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    Feats of Passion: The Leopard Slug

    (via C-Monster)

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    Yue Minjun: It Is Funny

    Almost everything that Chinese artist Yue Minjun paints, sculpts or prints includes at least one man—closely resembling the artist himself—locked in laughter. Minjun’s work is delightful, infectious and brightly ironic. His men laugh through any situation, in any state of…

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    Thomas Allen’s Pop-Up Pulp

    The January 2010 Harper’s Magazine (print) features a few photographs from Thomas Allen’s “Epilogue,”  the last in his long series of photographs of transformed pulp fiction book covers. This was the first I’d seen of Allen’s incredible work, even though…

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    Mikael Kennedy: Shoot the Moon

    I think I’d like to make my second home inside one of the dreamy, grainy Polaroids shot by Mikael Kennedy. In his photos—a drifter’s gallery of people, places, moments—all light seems like radiance. The washed-out Polaroid colors give each image…

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    The Rumpus Interview with Paul Madonna

    “Even the things you love can take so much work that sometimes they bring you to the breaking point. So you might as well be in the most comfortable place possible to put yourself up against those tests, or else…

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