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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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    Amy Crehore’s “Dreamgirls & Ukes”

    Oregon-based artist Amy Crehore opens her solo show at Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, this Friday, February 13. Crehore has painted over a dozen antique ukuleles as part of this exhibit, most of which are from the 1920s, as well as…

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    Machine with Abandoned Doll

    “The intellect may be strong and the adult tormented as a result of it, but the child within dreams innocently.” —Arthur Ganson

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    Lost Love’s Artifacts

    The Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to San Francisco just in time for the holiday that commemorates, lest we forget, the martyrdom of St. Valentine, who was stoned and beheaded for his acts of devotion. Founded in Croatia, the…

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    Humor, Interrupted

    Here on the Internets, we know narrative digression all too well as the “hyperlink.” Those of us who are accustomed to, and indeed savor, the buds of info that bloom on the page waiting to be plucked may find the…

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    The Rumpus Long Interview with Ron English

    “…The day that you don’t have any Republican friends, or you don’t have any Christian friends, or you don’t have any Muslim friends, that you only have, like, artists-from-New-York-City friends, then I think you have a problem.”

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    Lady Aiko, Solo

    Since she broke from the international street art collective Faile that she helped to found, New York artist Aiko Nakagawa, aka Lady Aiko, is making a mark all her own. In some of her works, butterflies, bunnies and babes swirl…

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    Terrifying Nixon-Era Children’s Books

    Ever since shoving Bush into his helicopter with an expletive and fantasizing about letting go of Cheney’s wheelchair at the top of a long, steep hill, I find I have a tender place in my heart for the plight of…

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    Beware of the Blog Superlink

    Showcasing what you may or may not agree is the greatest video ever, Jersey City, New Jersey, radio station WFMU’s Beware of the Blog website has to be one of the most eclectic collections of multimedia around. Beware of the…

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    Impresario of the Inflatable

    Jason Hackenwerth‘s balloon sculptures make the quick, traditional poodles and swords of children’s parties look like…child’s play. Works like his Orgasmoebic creation float gracefully in museums, or sometimes double as garments. More after the jump…

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    Someone is Trying to Tell You Something

    Two years ago Axel Albin and Josh Kamler began photographing graffiti messages in cities around the world. At their website viewers can read, comment and submit their own message graffiti photos. Their first book, Written on the City, was published…

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    Farewell, Dickhead

    Now that President Bush has made his final grope for the exit, The Rumpus asks a few artists, curators and friends to tell us which work of art best personifies the Bush legacy for them. (On the left Robert Arneson’s…

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    Home Away from Home for the Stone-Cold Heel Fetishist

    Designers and high heel enthusiasts INSA and Ben Rousseau spent three weeks carving a room at the legendary Ice Hotel in Sweden. (via Juxtapoz)