Walk into the public area of Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport, and you’ll see traditional airport sights: monitors for departures, places to grab coffee and food. But you’ll also see ...

Inspired by Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking, experimental 1914 poetry collection “Tender Buttons,” “The Dresses/Objects Project” promises to be one of the most talked about interdisciplinary art ...

The story begins in the middle: the middle of the Jardin du Luxembourg, at “an eight-sided pond/ where you can rent a tiny sailboat/ and set it adrift over and over again.” And in the middle of ...

THE great disparity between the fame of Gertrude Stein as one of the giants of modern literature and the inconsequential number of her published works made up a paradox that outraged her sense of ...

This paper poses the work of Gertrude Stein as a challenge to contemporary scholarship centered on theories of failure. Demonstrating that Stein’s notion of failure as a precondition for success ...

Before Gertrude Stein distinguished herself as an expatriate American writer and patron of artists in Paris, she spent some of her childhood in California, where San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish ...

I don’t like the family Stein, There is Gert, there is Ed, there is Ein; Cert’s poems are bunk, Ed’s statues are punk, And nobody understands Ein. Many a writer appears on the literary horizon like a ...

Gertrude Stein, born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died on July 27, 1946, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, was an avant-garde American writer, poet, and art collector. Stein is … ...

I’d just brushed the dog, there on the dog’s couch. I was wearing a black—well, to call it a gown is a criminal overstatement—a black rag. It became clear to me— and when I say clear I mean the moment ...