on But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise

Brechtian epic theatre's legacy in Twin Peaks: The Return .

From volcanic eruptions to hurricanes, from classic novels to migration waves

The hidden history of a rather large taxidermy speciman

“Your vision in disguised cell towers is our mission,” the Larson Camouflage website declares.

The nuanced intensity of the gradient border lets us know that these contentious boundaries were more than a series of sterile strokes.

Does the bake sale have a place in contemporary activism?

So often trauma survivors are thought of as victims, but perhaps we are superhumans.

a vast, dramatic, and visceral scene

evidence and profit

Coming face to face with the world historical forces of trade, technology, colonialism, and bureaucracy.

Wonder in Four Objects

critical body-listening

James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jenny McCarthy between their children and the world: healthcare and choice in the era of Black Lives Matter

Black funeral service providers' long fight against discrimination in life insurance

pyschogeography and its city limits

David Bowie and public memory

the feminized narrative of funerals

The influence of Romantic philosophy in the funeral industry

Architecture at NMAAHC

The Dilettante Army salon series has a themed dinner for the early Society of Dilettanti in 1730s London.

Earl of Middlesex

Francis Dashwood

the erasure of women's creative work

On Viciousness

lynching photographs and Michael Brown

The commodification of sentimental culture

getting creepy

a floating eye observing distanced objects

In the National Enquirer, the reality of death becomes as strange and superficial as the surrounding fictions.

Ai Weiwei's @Large

The Puritans basically invented the "pious ejaculation." Take this quiz!

An invitation to dine with Dilettante Army on February 4th in Los Angeles

more and more of its meaning eroded away with every click

archiving through soup

walking, weaving, wandering

Ongoing narratives of colonialist expansion in San Jose, CA

photography at the Olympics

Lincoln's Springfield funeral

Rows upon rows of dead birds, the boarder's repose

rows upon rows of dead birds

A salon dinner about art and food in the Russian Revolution of 1917

Chemical philosophers, Galenists, and mechanists war over the meaning of scientific inquiry in early modern Europe.

Redirecting the gaze toward the audience

Family. America. Freedom.

displacement, real estate, and Rio's "Games of Inclusion"

The uneasy space between human and machine in late 18th century Europe

Speech, defamation, and witchcraft (on Twitter and in the transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials)

electronic presence and Clue

When I encourage my clay to crack or to warp, when I leave a fold or a stretch mark, do I owe it to this dumbshit?

Who says I'm dead?

Learn your Love Language & buy stuff!

a methods section for the catalog raisonné

An examination and celebration of one of the 18th century's most foppish poets.

Western museums and native voices

J. Crew, J. Lindenburg, Brooks Brothers, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Macy’s, Barney’s, Bloomy’s, Sak’s. Suit Supply, Top Man, Uniqulo, Paul Smith, Gant Rugger, Club Monaco. Prada, Lord and Taylor, and Taylor 4 Less. I have been all over New York looking for a suit.