Ben Hellman
Into the Mouth of American Kitsch: Wisconsin’s House on the Rock
The author contemplating another round of phantasmagorical excess at the House on the Rock, Spring Green, Wisconsin. Photo by Rachel...
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Ben Hellman
- Apr 11, 2021
To Catch a Catoblepas by the Tail
Detail of Sludge, the Catoblepas, a wall-mounted sculpture by author, paper mache and mixed media, inspired by an illustration by David...
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Ben Hellman
- Nov 10, 2020
The Endless Hunger; Confronting Grief With Gilgamesh
Statue of Gilgamesh at the University of Sydney (based on an ancient bas-relief at the Louvre) and Herbert Mason's Epic of Gilgamesh. If...
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Ben Hellman
- Oct 31, 2020
Noodling through Norse Myths; Folklorist's Notebook
Some of the books I've been moving to and from various end tables, usually not as neat as this. It has been a week of Norse myth study...
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Ben Hellman
- Oct 27, 2020
Dracula Revisited: On my long-ago journey to Romania
My original article, published in the Eagle Tribune about my search for the historical Dracula, and the author, twenty years ago this...
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Ben Hellman
- Oct 17, 2020
Orpheus and Eurydice Go Shopping
(She really didn't want to go in the first place). Edward Poynter's 1862 "Orpheus and Eurydice" altered by the author's brilliant wife....
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Ben Hellman
- Jul 21, 2020
A Lesson from the Mahabharata for a New Homeowner
The Khandava forest fire, from the 10th century Cambodian temple Banteay Srei, in Angkor. As I plot the destruction of the rodents...
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Ben Hellman
- Jul 19, 2020
The Parable of the Stink Bug and the Urinal
I want to share with you a story about an encounter I had at a urinal, but stick with me, because this is also a story about life and...
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