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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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    Must-Stache: Art from Glenn Sinclair

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    Written on the City

    Conceptual artist and poet Jenny Holzer is known for her massive projections of poetry and political aphorisms across urban buildings around the world. Her words, cast in ephemeral light, slide along uneven facades, highlighting their form just as the form…

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    My Love, My Cephalopod

    Barbados-based graphic novelist and artist Barnaby Ward has introduced a new series of prints featuring women and sea creatures.

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    Reuben Margolin’s Kinetic Wave Sculptures

    “Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked.…

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    But Seriously, You Are the Rainbow

    When I was little I would squint my eyes in a dark room and see stippled, fluorescent color. I wondered if everyone saw the same thing. Now, thanks to the DNA Rainbow Project, I have to wonder if I was seeing…

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    Lost Books Live Online

    A person named simply “Will” curates a blog devoted exclusively to the spectacular cover art and reprinted manuscripts of books that have fallen from memory. The site, A Journey Round My Skull, is described as “unhealthy book fetishism from a…

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    Math Wrath

    The bizarre, pixilated art to be found on MathWrath.com can’t really be explained, and probably shouldn’t be. Just take it in, and don’t miss a pixel. Via Beautiful Decay.

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    Corey Arnold’s Fish Work

    Thirteen years ago, photographer Corey Arnold took a job as a fisherman in Alaska as an adventurous way to pay off his student loans. The resulting photographs have been exhibited in galleries around the world, and have earned Arnold recognition…

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    The Art of Lost Words Exhibit

    What makes a word fall out of use? The Text Gallery in London is currently exhibiting The Art of Lost Words,  “an exhibition of design, typography and illustration inspired by forgotten words. 47 participants have chosen from among the dictionary’s…

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    The Art of Lost Words

    For the Art of Lost Words exhibit, artist Mark A. Webber chose the word “Dehisce: (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body…

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    A Man Named Pearl

    I was pretty sure, based on the ridiculous soundtrack alone, that the story of topiary artist Pearl Fryar was a mockumentary. And a good one. Living in rural South Carolina, Fryar decided one day to be, according to the New…

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    Ben Tolman’s Microscopic Surrealism

    Wandering through Ben Tolman’s online gallery of pen and ink drawings can quickly turn into a search for what’s buried among the ornate camouflage. Like looking through a microscope onto an entire world of vivid organisms, you could zoom in…