Articles
The relationship of colors on and off the canvas.
On resisting parasitic invasions—from the poisons in our soil, to toxic masculinity in the psyche.
The art of learning new skills.
The pioneering ambient music artist discusses the computer programs, musicians, and spaces that shape his soundscapes.
An exhibition by a prior member of the Situationist International.
The author on writing about the swell before a war, factual inaccuracy as surrealism, and taking a jab at our own heedlessness.
The malleable biographies of cultural objects.
The novelist on studying cinema in Singapore and how she came to imagine the queer love lives of Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl.
The first time I heard something on Nyege Nyege Tapes was on computer speakers. For once, the promotional blurb wasn’t hyperbolic …
Much silence fills the exquisite visual tableaus in German filmmaker Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But…
Chavisa Woods tells a linear but fragmented personal story of growing up and coming of age in a misogynist culture
Long neglected poet Stephen Jonas created a complex web of self-mythologized identities to escape any form of categorization …
In a leafy courtyard at Cairo University, the philosopher Graham Harman explains that politics is just another object among a level field of objects …
The Bauhaus tends to be presented through the lens of its creative and intellectual diaspora.
In a 1988 interview for the LA Times, self-taught artist Reverend Howard Finster explained his creative predicament …
Discipline, resistance, and care flow through the performance artist’s work.
The Performing Arts Fellowship is a one-year editorial fellowship.
The debut novelist on her literary influences, informal storytelling, and the imaginative possibilities of walking.
The poet on the myth of total knowledge, resisting answers, and the anxiety of completion.
