Artist-Designer John Preus
Artist John Preus maintains a professional design studio that uses 2nd hand materials, including discarded furniture from closed Chicago Public Schools.
The Other Orientalism: Colonialism in the Caucasus
For centuries, the Caucasus was to the Russian Empire what the Middle East was to the British and French: a savage land to be dominated and a romanticized Other against which Russia could define its own “European” identity.
Sarah Webster Fabio: Mother of Black Studies
Poet, teacher, musician, and scholar of black literature, Sarah Webser Fabio, helped build a Black Arts movement on the West Coast.
The Easter Bunny, or, Why We Love Rabbits
The human fascination with rabbits, including the Easter Bunny, is long and deep. But why rabbits?
Traduttore, Traditore: Is Translation Ever Really Possible?
Translator, traitor, goes the Italian expression, although something may be lost in the translation.
Personification Is Your Friend: The Language of Inanimate Objects
Studies have shown that anthropomorphizing not only helps us learn. It also serves a social function, helping us feel connected.
Reinterpreting The Chauvet Cave Paintings
Do France’s Chauvet Cave paintings depict a contemporary volcanic eruption? Recent research argues that they do.
Power in the Painting: Faith Ringgold and her Story Quilts
Through a didactic retelling of history, artist Faith Ringgold uses her story quilts to reframe the past.
Bowie, Wilde, and the Fin de Siècle Dandies
Exploring the David Bowie/Oscar Wilde/French bohemian dandies connection.