By: Joshua Glenn

A first-hand report from the epicenter of the 2010 Oil Spill Disaster: the city of Boston.

By: Joshua Glenn

Definitive proof of Jack Kirby’s Radium-Age sci-fi and fantasy influences!

By: Joshua Glenn

A never-before-published Daniel Clowes interview!

By: Joshua Glenn

Are you synec­dochical enough to watch Star­ship Troopers?

By: Joshua Glenn

“Aphrodite, forgive me! I have failed in my mission!”

By: Joshua Glenn

Crime writer Robert B. Parker is dead. HiLobrow.com contributor Sarah Weinman, who writes “Dark Passages,” a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times, and “The Criminalist”, a monthly online column for […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2009.

By: Joshua Glenn

The matrix of modern dispositions

By: Joshua Glenn

Editor’s note: This is one of the most popular posts, traffic-wise, ever published on HiLobrow. Click here to see a list of the Top 25 Most Popular posts (as of October 2012); and click here […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Why do middlebrows love to hate performance art?

By: Joshua Glenn

Ringtone: “The Twist”

By: Joshua Glenn

A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art. This item is excerpted from yesterday’s essay on the Postmodernist Generation. Neo-Dada artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Yves Klein were born between 1924-33. Reacting […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Another postscript to Matthew Battles’ meditation on doodling. I originally wrote this item for Laylah Ali: 5 Responses to 5 Paintings, an exhibition brochure published by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002. *** Late […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Nobrows are easily recognized, for their gait is dancing and bold. But HiLobrows frequently deceive one because their bearing is curiously like that of a class of people heartily despised by Nobrows as well as […]