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“Vulgarity is gendered, of course.”1 —T.J. ClarkWHEN I TEACH AMERICAN ART of the 1970s, there is one work that always stops the class cold: Lynda Benglis’s ad from the November 1974 issue of Artforum. College students who respond matter-of-factly to other controversial works from the period––Vito Acconci masturbating beneath the floorboards of the Sonnabend gallery or Chris Burden’s having himself shot with a .22-caliber rifle––are visibly (and, on occasion, audibly) taken aback by the image of Benglis, naked and greased with oil, extending a dildo from her vagina. In contras...

Found in Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, vol. IBy Sir Edward Coke and Walter Lippman In 1604, the English the English judge and jurist Sir Edward Coke announced in a "ruling known as Semayne's Case that there were strict limits on how Sheriffs may

A closer look at the intertwined history of the coffee we drink and the work we do, how coffee has changed our understanding of the human body, and the possibility of rediscovering the pleasure of coffee.

A closer look at the intertwined history of the coffee we drink and the work we do, how coffee has changed our understanding of the human body, and the possibility of rediscovering the pleasure of coffee.