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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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    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 contained elements of an international crime thriller and a Cheech…

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    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.

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    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 Walsh, along with two from California—Ron Kenedi and Christopher Jernberg—all…

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    Stop Motion with Wolf and Pig

    via Wooster Collective

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    Andy Huang’s “Doll Face”

    via Art Machines

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    Momoyo Torimitsu’s Salary Soldiers

    When Japanese artist Momoyo Torimitsu takes her life-size, crawling robot businessman, Miyata Jiro, for a stroll

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    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 range from pop culture to classical replica to political critique.…

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    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 buildings, subways and landscapes, each from the same perspective. The…

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    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 intricately detailed, and his human figures “entirely anatomically correct.” Mayer,…

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    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 Farrow has been making a unique collection of modern reliquaries…

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    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 embraces the common experience of actual movie going, rather than…

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    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 1996. But the persona around which the site exists is…