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RIP Alexander McQueen

For an ambivalent clotheshorse like myself, there was never a better reason to follow mainstream fashion. A huge loss in a rough year for creativity. Watch em and weep, even you, boys.

Upon whose body Paterson instructs his thoughts

The governor of my hometown has proposed budget cuts to the New York public school system of 5%, and health care is getting as they say slashed by $1 billion, including reductions to Medicaid providers. Agency spending is being cut…

a message from pretty: on laurel nakadate

Artist’s talks—up for review, like a gallery show or spread in Artforum? A few nights ago I saw photographer, video artist, and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate give a presentation on her work at SAIC, and it was one hell of a mindspin. As…

Sing, Musers!

Poets and poetic theorists, a sincere request for pedagogy: what does it mean to speak of “narrative” in contemporary poetry?

I’m coming at this question obliquely, from the field of visual art, a piece of which I recently co-made although I don’t…

What’s the Rumpus, Prez?

Pace Milton Friedman, it isn’t often that the University of Chicago campus really gets its knickers in a knot about something geopolitical. I, for one, was a bit flabbergasted to find the email quoted here in my inbox this evening and was…

gaga autonomism

From Marc Bousquet, an interview with a spokesperson from Occupy California. Here is what follows his or her characterization of the UCSC facility occupied by the group for a full week as a “remarkable open zone of mutual aid and intellectual…