Another Bust for the Bush War
According to the New York Times, Americans posing as contractors allegedly stole $40 million in Iraqi fuel and sold it on the black market. “The operation described in the indictment…
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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.
At the Intersection of Rock n’ Roll and Lemony Snicket
John Wesley Harding teaches the Delta song to Daniel Handler before their big show at The Independent. Handler plays a mean accordian.
Bodies, Islands
From sunny St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, artist Tomas Lanner runs the online Salt Gallery. Most recently he asked three local artists, Luca Gasperi, Mandy Thody, and Mike…
Momoyo Torimitsu’s Salary Soldiers
When Japanese artist Momoyo Torimitsu takes her life-size, crawling robot businessman, Miyata Jiro, for a stroll
Trash Art Part 1: Tom Deininger
Found object art may be more environmentally known as recycled art, or just plain trash art. But the work of Tom Deininger is anything but trash. His large found object works…
Invincible Cities
The interactive Web archive Invincible Cities is a Herculean accomplishment by sociologist and photographer Camilo José Vergara. Over three decades, Vergara has taken more than fourteen thousand photographs of urban…
Jeremy Mayer’s Typewriter Art
Jeremy Mayer makes his sculptures entirely from used typewriter parts. His process is strictly cold-assembly. He does not “solder, weld or glue these assemblages together.” His animals and insects are…
Built from Bullets
Bullet shells, shrapnel and scrap metal–the detritus of war—were well known to be recycled back into arms, but they have also been transformed into art. Since 1971, the artist Al…
C.S. Leigh’s Evolving Cinephilia
In the current issue of The Believer, the multi-talented artist, writer, filmmaker and mysteriously elusive C.S. Leigh contemplates the “New Physicality of Cinema.” In part, it’s a nostalgic physicality that…
The Mystery of Mouchette
I hate to be frail, but Mouchette gives me the creeps. The creator of this disturbingly dark Web site has successfuly concealed his or her identity since its inception in…