Doug Aitken's installation Migration (Empire), which is on view in front of the University Art Museum until November 14, has two very different faces.

In my house there is a library. It used to be called the playroom, back when I was very small and very young and learned what Don Quixote was by watching the Wishbone episode. It was a library then, too, but I didn’t really notice. It has shelves for ...

A snap. Audible, no, probably not. But tenable, real. Crack. The sound that comes when you break. I know. I broke two days ago. It was afternoon, or evening, I’m not certain. Snapped from everything. I was a leaf, all else a branch—a tornado snapped our connecting twig ...

Mouth taking the form
around like the moistening apple core
which deforms peculiarly
in the way of these things,

“All gone Quinn.”
“Who sir?”
“Shy Anne.”
“You sure?”

Rooms Full of Pottery Make Me Want to Smash Things

Nervous,
(as I am in
china shops,) when you place
your hand on my back, saying, “I
am Here.”

“and the water felt like crystals” you are saying, buzzing in my ear where the phone is
wedged between shoulder and cheek and
I am barely listening,
lost in myself,

The opening of the McDonald’s on the Spanish Steps in Rome was the catalyst that drove Carlo Petrini to found the Slow Food movement in 1986. The 14000-square-foot, 800-seat McDonald’s, one of the largest in the world, has also been described as one of the most elegant, featuring ...

Examining Die Antwoord’s new video “Evil Boy,” it seems more meaningful and efficient to list all the non-phallic imagery: