Miles Osgood is a PhD student in English at Harvard University, where he is at work on a dissertation on global modernism and international sport, focusing on the Olympic Art Competitions of 1912 to 1948. He has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Washington Post.
Miles Osgood
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Stadium Arts
On the way into Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium during this year’s World Cup, spectators found FIFA’s flagship Fan Shop in an unlikely spot: at the feet of a monumental statue to Lenin. The irony was unmistakable, but the effect was strangely appropriate. Here, embodied, was the paradox of Russia in the eyes of its foreign visitors: […]
