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Podcatcher #3: Poetry Jawns
“If we don’t do it, who will?” Emma Sanders says, and it’s as though a dog whistle has gone off; this is a question I’m intimately familiar with, one I’ve heard many times, and one I’ve asked myself...
View ArticleThe Surprising Art of Dr. Seuss
In addition to being a world famous children’s writer, Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was also a prolific artistic who produced dozens of illustrations, paintings, and sculptures. “Geisel dubbed...
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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
In her new book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, comedian Sara Benincasa sculpts decades of complex, hard-won experiences into readily accessible insights. By softening her suggestions into anecdotal gel...
View ArticleSwimming in Sprinkles
The Museum of Ice Cream promises to tap into childlike memories of summer days and ice cream cones. It combines those dreams with adult spending power: In the gift shop, premium sprinkles are sold for...
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The Rumpus Interview with Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek said that she only started writing poetry seriously in her late thirties, but since then, she’s been published in Poetry and the Atlantic Monthly, has received a Witter Bynner Fellowship...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Less Than I Hope For
1. I always want to be a better painter than I am. There’s a gap between what I have in mind and what I end up creating with paint through the movements of my body. The images I carry in my mind have...
View ArticleSex, Money, and Art Forgery
“Novels about psychically and sexually burdened paintings have a rich literary pedigree,” writes UNC Professor of Art History Maggie Cao for Public Books. Cao’s essay tackles the subject of forgery,...
View ArticleFinding Your Voice
Authenticity of voice can only come from authentic work. And authentic work doesn’t come from the head; it’s an outgrowth of authentic feeling.In a post for the Ploughshares blog, Annie Weatherwax...
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #7: The Art of the Accidental Selfie
One recent hot weekday afternoon, I told my partner—the guy who created the “Punk the Muse” logo and draws its cartoons—that I wanted to get out and about. We’d been sitting at home too long. Moon’s...
View ArticleHaving Fall Fun This October
As ever, we’ve a stimulating shortlist to offset the arrival of the cold autumn weather: look no further for the latest in art, film, theatre and restaurant openings.No need to be depressed thinking...
View ArticleWords & Music
If you were to hear a story with its own soundtrack, it’s going to affect how you feel and interact with that story, even if you’re not directly paying attention to the music, and vice versa. I also...
View ArticleOff the Mainstream Map
For Bitch Media, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist interviews writer-actress Roberta Colindrez on her recent roles in Amazon’s adaptation of Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick and the Broadway adaptation...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jade Chang
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jade Chang about her new novel The Wangs vs. the World, the different ways we value art, comedy, fashion and beauty, citizen journalism, and how to write an immigrant...
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #10: Art Lives!
Sunday: I work through the voting guide, propositions, and candidates, making my decisions. My partner, Argyle C, Klopnick (ACK!), is sure, now, that Hillary’s victory is certain. I ‘m not yet a...
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The Big Idea #13: Dawn Tripp
Once, in the 1970s, Gloria Steinem appeared at the door of Georgia O’Keeffe’s home in New Mexico bearing a bouquet of roses.O’Keeffe turned her away.O’Keeffe, whose most famous paintings are generally...
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The Rumpus Interview with Abraham Burickson
Odyssey Works is a San Francisco-based theater company (though any prolonged investigation of their project calls into question taxonomic designation, and so, already, I am failing to describe them...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce about the recently released translation of Justine, Mondrup’s 2012 Danish novel about a young artist and the world of art in Denmark,...
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The Future of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep up with Our Suffering?
x. You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing John Carpenter’s The Thing opens with the desolation of...
View ArticleMultitudes #3: Policing Black Art
We are pleased to announce Multitudes, a new column at The Rumpus, which will feature the work of writers of color, actively seeking underrepresented voices and perspectives. We hope that the writers...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #70: Jean Conner
Jean Conner was married to Bruce Conner from 1957 until his death in 2008. As a result, she tends to be overshadowed by her husband’s larger than life reputation as an artist, filmmaker, light show...
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