By: Joshua Glenn

Will wonders never cease? These covers keep flooding in. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to this important cultural archaeology project. Check out the entire series.

By: Joshua Glenn

Our circle of hermenautic comrades has turned up several other examples of esteemed authors published in racy paperback editions. Enjoy! Check out the entire series. *** *** *** NB: Hoagland’s Cat Man won the 1954 […]

By: Joshua Glenn

On Thursday, the editors of HILOBROW discussed the particulars of our project during a weekly meetup with Brian and Tom Nealon, proprietors of the excellent Pazzo Books (located in the Boston neighborhood of West Roxbury). […]

By: Matthew Battles

BORN IN 1900, German artist Gerd Arntz designed a pattern language for life in the twentieth century. His prints and designs were intended to further the purposes of a socialist world even as they dreamt […]

By: Matthew Battles

MARGARET and CHRISTINE WERTHEIM are crocheting a coral reef, and they’re eager for help. The sisters direct the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles, which supports lectures, publications, and projects that explore the “figurative ecology” […]

By: Matthew Battles

The art of Thomas Doyle is at once inviting and unsettling. Miniature tableaux under glass, his pieces have the quirky, lilliputian charm of the model railroad, the dollhouse, and the museum diorama. But upon further […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]

By: Joshua Glenn

We learned about this chair — it’s called L’Astiko — from the current issue of Wallpaper. It’s a chic lounger in the midcentury style, but the seat is woven from rubber inner tubes. This experiment […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Happy Birthday, Vivienne Westwood! MORE HILO BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH

By: Matthew Battles

Thomas Horvath’s kites are like every kite you’ve ever seen, and like no kite you’ve ever seen. They’re what kites dream of when they lie sleeping in a tangle of string at the bottom of […]

By: Joshua Glenn

File the following under: Warning: Contents Not Nearly as Sexy as You Might Think, or Petards, Prurient Paperback Purchasers Hoisted by Own Check out the entire series. *** — Thanks, C.S., for this one. *** […]

By: Matthew Battles

Much contemporary art prides itself on posing questions. But too often the questions are rehearsed, and the answers prompt only tepid flickers of sensation. Works that engage the imagination in a total fashion — that […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The circle of hermenauts to which HiLobrow.com’s editors belong doesn’t know when to quit. We keep turning up more hilobrow cover art. Check out the entire series. *** *** *** *** HILOBROW COVER GALLERY: Orwell’s […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Some of our ideas about hilobrow found their first expression elsewhere. Here’s an item that was published — in a slightly different version — at the blog Brainiac on 10/24/06. The October issue of Elle […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Our circle of hermenautic friends has conjured up a dozen more highbrow (or at least classic) novels with lowbrow cover art. Here’s a selection — thanks, Luc, for the first two. Check out the entire […]