Printing Out All Humanity’s Knowledge
Wikipedia hopes to one day contain all of mankind’s (literally, mankind’s) knowledge in a singular repository. Artist Michael Mandiberg decided to create a hard copy and start printing out the online...
View ArticleA Library in an Abyss
A Swedish artist has converted an old mining shaft into a library that disappears into an endless abyss. The library is actually a sculpture, part of a 55-piece show, Sculpture by the Sea, located in...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive
The narrator of Elie Wiesel’s Night is a precocious student whose love of God is so profound, he weeps during prayer. At only 13, he wants to study Kabbalah: Jewish mystical teachings, usually reserved...
View ArticleNudes of Wall Street
Writing for Broadly, Stassa Edwards has this profile of Nona Faustine, a photographer whose nude self-portraits aim to expose New York’s history of slavery.Faustine’s “White Shoes” is a series is a...
View ArticleBelize’s Art Revolution
At Electric Literature, Monica Byrne discusses the ongoing art revolution in Belize, and how artists create works that represent a diverse and beautiful country dealing with the trauma of...
View ArticleParis Forever
That’s not to say being informed isn’t important—of course it is—but I suddenly felt a more important calling. I remembered the words of Marlon Brando in the wake of 9/11: “This is exactly the time for...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Valuation Methods
Lori Greiner is hugging Shelly Ehler, entrepreneur and stay-at-home mother of two. She’s buying a quarter of Ehler’s business for $75,000. Greiner’s written out the check, signed it, dangled it in...
View ArticleA Conversation with Ivan Vladislavić
Tristan Foster interviews South African writer Ivan Vladislavić on the importance of art in his writing, having a large body of work, and the appeal (or lack of appeal) of cities:Our love for cities is...
View ArticleArt as a Tool for Action
Over at NPR, Molly Crabapple discusses her new memoir Drawing Blood, her involvement in Occupy Wall Street, and how she became a political artist:…for a long time I felt like going to protests was the...
View ArticleArtists as Activists
I was recently asked by a young interviewer if writing, with all the time it takes and its use of paper (though I compose on a computer) is not antithetical to what is needed now, the speed that is, to...
View ArticleCan Creativity Be Taught?
Is creativity something we are born with? Can it only be nurtured, or can it be taught? Scientist discuss this age-old question for PRI.Related Posts:Weekly GeekeryFrom Metaphor to ConsciousnessMore...
View Article…!?
Classics retold with everything but the words.Related Posts:At the MuseumThe Rumpus Interview with Peter MendelsundSound & Vision #6: Nate DuvalPicturing a New ShakespeareArt Should Make Things Worse
View ArticleArt Should Make Things Worse
Art shouldn’t be mere normalizing sublimation or queer desublimation, which amounts to the same thing. Should actually make your problems worse. Only then can the fantasy of endless role-playing and...
View ArticleRubbing Elbows
Sometimes it feels like New York isn’t full of interesting people so much as people who are more interesting than you. For BuzzFeed Books, John Wray describes the mediocrity of being surrounded by...
View ArticleMichelangelo vs. Raphael
Having goaded the formerly pre-eminent Michelangelo by winning papal favour and sneaking into his as-yet unfinished Sistine Chapel, Raphael further insulted his Florentine rival in the Laocoön...
View ArticleBooks as Art
We love books for many reasons. Take a quick break from marveling at the interweb and appreciate the physical book as an object, and as a piece of art.Related Posts:The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in...
View ArticleWomen-Only Art Shows
The New York Times has an article on the rise of women-only art shows, but will it help?Related Posts:The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the SubjunctiveThe Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jacob WrenLies and...
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #2: Poets on Poetry and Art
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape column this...
View ArticleUnlinking Mental Illness and Creativity
The idea that “mental illness is the heart of creativity” has persisted for decades. But this idea can negatively impact one’s ability to seek help that they truly need. At The Establishment, Sarah...
View ArticleSong of the Day: “Everything In Its Right Place”
“Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon,” sings Thom Yorke in the enthralling first song from Radiohead’s groundbreaking 2000 album, Kid A, which Rolling Stone called the “weirdest Number One album of...
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