Cabinet magazine issue 40, with a special section on “Hair,” available now
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– Justin E. H. Smith on hairlessness and rationality
– Laurel Braitman on “barbering” in captive animals
– Mats Bigert on hair and the electric chair
– Blake Gopnik on artistic acomocliticism
– Emma Markiewicz on wigs in eighteenth-century England
– Spyros Papapetros on the cosmic meanings of hair directionality
– Jorian Polis Schutz on four episodes in the history of Argentine hair
– Christopher Turner on the split hairs of Alfie West
– Mia Farrow’s controversial haircut
– Artist projects by Julia Jacquette and So Yoon Lym
Just a little more off the top with:
– Carol Mavor on the delectable Minou Drouet
– Volker M. Welter on images of the whole earth
– Aaron Schuster on sneezing in cinema
– Meredith Martin on the milk cure in eighteenth-century France
– William H. Sherman on William F. Friedman and the birth of modern cryptanalysis
– Yara Flores on the dialectics of the Shmoo
– D. Graham Burnett on Cesare Brandi’s theory of restoration
– Michael Bracewell on the color gold
– Christopher Turner on the secret signs of the cataract surgeon
– Wayne Koestenbaum on restraint
– As you relax under the dryer: a portfolio of artist projects celebrating Cabinet’s tenth anniversary, featuring Janine Antoni, Francis Cape, Moyra Davey, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Rachel Harrison, Virgil Marti, Vik Muniz, Ester Partegàs, Alexandre Singh, and Jane South
– And since you didn’t squirm in your chair, a treat: “Knowledge is Powe,” a pull-out poster in which Sir Francis Bacon’s famous motto is rendered (more or less) in his own coding system.
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