COLUMNS

COLORS/GOLD
MICHAEL BRACEWELL
Pop's magic suit

INGESTION / DIALECTICS OF THE SHMOO
YARA FLORES
The Eucharist of utopia

INVENTORY/BLIND SIGHT
CHRISTOPHER TURNER
The secret signs of the cataract surgeon

LEGEND / RESTRAINT
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
Muscular arms, wristwatch, moustache

MAIN

FROM DISC TO SPHERE
VOLKER M. WELTER
Taking on the whole earth

THE CINEMATIC SPASM
AARON SCHUSTER
Lights, camera, achoo!

HOW TO MAKE ANYTHING SIGNIFY ANYTHING
WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
William F. Friedman and birth of modern cryptanalysis

FACING THE UNKNOWN
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
History, art, loss, recovery

DAIRY CASES
MEREDITH MARTIN
The milk cure in eighteenth-century France

TRAGIC CANDY, TIME
CAROL MAVOR
Eating Minou Drouet

ARTIST PROJECTS/TEN
JANE SOUTH, ESTER PARTEGAS, JANINE ANTONI,
RACHEL HARRISON, FRANCIS CAPE, MOYRA DAVEY.
SABRINA GSCHWANDTNER, ALEXANDRE SINGH,
VIRGIL MARTI, VIK MUNIZ

HAIR

PATTERN BALDNESS
JUSTIN E. H. SMITH
Hairlessness and rationality

ARTIST PROJECT / LIQUOR, HAIR
JULIA JACQUETTE

OF MICE AND MANIA
LAUREL BRAITMAN
The trichotillomaniac impulse

A CLOSE SHAVE WITH DEATH
MATS BIGERT
The double electrocution of Willie Francis

ACOMOCLITICISM
BLAKE GOPNIK
Aesthetics along the bikini line

ARTIST PROJECT /THE DREAMTIME
SO YOONLYM

CUTTING REMARKS
Mia Farrow's troublesome haircut

MATTERS OF THE HEAD
EMMA MARKIEWICZ
Hair and wigs in eighteenth-century England

ON THE DIRECTIONALITY OF HAIR
SPYROS PAPAPETROS
Streams on the cosmic body

BARBERS AND BARBARIANS
JORIAN POLIS SCHUTZ
Episodes in the history of Argentine hair

SPLIT HAIRS
CHRISTOPHER TURNER
The art of Alfie West

AND
POSTCARD / LEARN YOUR STRIPES
BOOKMARK / CURLERS