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Cabinets of Curiosities

Cabinets of Curiosities

Wonder in Four Objects

Dick Pics for Sacred Healing: A Meditation on the Provenance of Objects

Dick Pics for Sacred Healing: A Meditation on the Provenance of Objects

An investigation into the functionality and symbolism of a mysterious gold penis

Ghost: How I Learned About White Feminism

Ghost: How I Learned About White Feminism

"She dodges responsibility like the type of abruptly swooping ghost seen in movies."

It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing

It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing

The history of health in clouds, from miasmas to digital healthcare and "cloud campuses"

Judging the Lover by the Cover

Judging the Lover by the Cover

A targeted system of textual seduction: trap yourself an NYC intellectual.

Monthly Ekphrastic: <em>The Peaceable Kingdom</em>

Monthly Ekphrastic: The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom is Yours / Nonetheless

Monthly Ekphrastic: Albert Bierstadt’s <i>Mount Hood</i>

Monthly Ekphrastic: Albert Bierstadt’s Mount Hood

Were it a religion or at least a lifestyle I would like to be baptized into Luminism.

Monthly Ekphrastic: Constantin Brancusi’s <i>The Miracle (Seal [1])</i>
Monthly Ekphrastic: GIF from Alice Suret-Canale’s <i>Hour Hour Minute Minute</i>
Monthly Ekphrastic: Jitish Kallat’s <i>Annexation</i>

Monthly Ekphrastic: Jitish Kallat’s Annexation

I’m trying to glide / through the halls of the museum / like a low-budge pixelated ghost.

Monthly Ekphrastic: Nora Jane Slade's <i>What</i>

Monthly Ekphrastic: Nora Jane Slade's What

She’s Not Hiding She’s Biting

Monthly Ekphrastic: Opening of <em>Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound</em> at the Museum of Arts and Design
Monthly Ekphrastic: Pablo Gonzalez’s Dog and Squirrel Mural

Monthly Ekphrastic: Pablo Gonzalez’s Dog and Squirrel Mural

The painter requests that you imagine / this other reality busting through

Monthly Ekphrastic: Photograph from Robert Frank’s <i>London/Wales</i>

Monthly Ekphrastic: Photograph from Robert Frank’s London/Wales

"Here is a question we all must ask: / if we found ourselves below / a London underpass on some sunlit / morning or bright late afternoon / in the decade after the war"

Preserving Culture, or a Brief History of the Jackalope

Preserving Culture, or a Brief History of the Jackalope

Commercial tourism and the great America that never was

Re-Enacting Whiteness

Re-Enacting Whiteness

Lincoln's Springfield funeral

Signs of Winter

Signs of Winter

It is raining again is the punch line to a letter

Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy

Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy

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

Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry

Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry

Tragedy, authenticity, and quality in Katy Perry's Part of Me and their relation to dominant narratives of the artist.

The Christmas Bush

The Christmas Bush

Family. America. Freedom.

The Glass Coffin

The Glass Coffin

Never let it be said that a man once unceremoniously barred from the Ivy League cannot travel far and rise to great heights.

The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny

The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny

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

The Monthly Ekphrastic: Jessi Reaves’s <em>Watertight Shelf With Zippers</em>
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Lucy Sparrow’s <em>8 ‘till late</em>

The Monthly Ekphrastic: Lucy Sparrow’s 8 ‘till late

The Felt Bodega is Closed for Restocking

The Monthly Ekphrastic: Martha Friedman’s <em>Two Person Operating System</em>
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum

The Monthly Ekphrastic: Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum

Poems in response to Kerry James Marshall's Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum

The Robber Bridegroom

The Robber Bridegroom

In the hour before she left, the old woman set about putting her house in order.

The Trump Who Cried Witch: Unruly Language and the American Witch Hunt

The Trump Who Cried Witch: Unruly Language and the American Witch Hunt

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

Things a mermaid owns

Things a mermaid owns

2 ½ week supply of Barnacle-B-Gone (industrial strength)

Things Found in the Bottom of Purses

Things Found in the Bottom of Purses

Loose change from four countries

Things Worth Burning

Things Worth Burning

a hole in your pocket

Treasonous Transmissions and the Death of <i>Clue</i>'s Singing Telegram Girl

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