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Bob Holmes , June 22nd, 2022
At a Comic-Con, or comic book convention, in Los Angeles in 2010, the trolley signs were in Klingon. Doug Kline/The Pop Culture Geek Network/Flickr This article was originally…

Ben Bridges , June 1st, 2022
Her dark gray eyes scan the horizon. An iridescent golden sun and stars encircle her head, flanked on one side by a cobalt sockeye salmon and the other…

Sara Toth Stub , May 24th, 2022
The Greek myth of Odysseus and the one-eyed Cyclops may have been inspired by ancient mammoth and mastodon skulls, on which the opening for the trunk looks like…
Paul Antick , May 23rd, 2022
Smith commits a crime is a tale of an everyday man trying to find his way – not in life, but – in space. This space looks essentially…

Emily Mendenhall and Aaron Gronstal , May 3rd, 2022
[no-caption] Aaron Gronstal These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my…

Manuel Delgado , April 4th, 2022
Assemblea de la Makabra el desembre de 2006 a Can Ricart Article publicat al Quadern de Cultura d’El País, el 30/6/2006. Fa referència a l’atac simbòlic contra el…
Emmeline Rumpf , March 25th, 2022
‘Watch out, we’ll catch every one of you!’ Hamza’s shrill voice echoed in the stairwell, and through the opening, he saw a swarm of children scattering to hide…
Parvati Dhananjayan , March 18th, 2022
Come oh villagers, come to the port Carry your sickles and scythes, sticks and rocks Come to the port, our city has fallen!! Our little city by the…
Dennis Rodgers , March 18th, 2022
Last year, the Allegra Lab began a thematic thread showcasing a selection of the wonderful “academic fictions” written by students as an assignment for the course on “Cities,…
| , March 14th, 2022
Why do some things count as art and go in museums, and other things don’t? “Exhibition organizers in the UAE often requested proof of citizenship status as part…
Fouad Asfour , January 24th, 2022
Exploring how beliefs and spiritual dimensions of inequality turn today’s realities of waste into future heritage and (invisible) monuments Cite this article as: Fouad Asfour. January, 2022. ‘Herita…

Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci , January 11th, 2022
The graphic novel The King of Bangkok follows the story of Nok, a blind man who makes his living selling lottery tickets on the streets of Bangkok. Claudio…

Katarina Zimmer , January 4th, 2022
In this ornament found in Mycenae, Greece, lions leap upon their prey. Nancy Thomas Once upon a time, people near the valley of Nemea in southern Greece lived…

Caroline Giles Banks , December 10th, 2021
My poem “Head of a Maiden” is my response to the recent New York Times article “Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A.”…
Tabea Scharrer , October 11th, 2021
In collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily diaries” from the recent…
Susan Shih Chang , September 16th, 2021
“When we encounter something beautiful, we usually experience two kinds of reactions. One may be moved by learning the background of the work or the artist, while the…

Manuel Delgado , September 7th, 2021
“Kanhobai”, una expresión de arte rabelado Reseña de La danza de los espíritus. Itinerario iniciático y prácticas terapéuticas de un chamán africano: Mba Owona, de Lluís Mallart (Ceiba Edicions,…

Angeliki Malakasioti , August 19th, 2021
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Painting form the art project On Drones and Ectoplasms: Breath of Gaia. ©Angeliki Malakasioti…