Interview
Using the visual seduction of installation and video to address systemic violence.
Using the visual seduction of installation and video to address systemic violence.
The writer on her new book Brown Album, personal essays, camp as armor, the hyperreal, and designing her own Barbie.
Rethinking institutions through social change.
Party creates vivid pastels and transformational installations that lure viewers deep into the backstories of his subjects.
The artist-filmmaker on his prescient collage film, featuring the jetsam and flotsam of global supply chains and a prophecy of the coming pandemic.
A rare David Wojnarowicz zine is republished.
An artist working to unveil ugly truths.
On writing female friendship, learning about moonshine, and composing a novel one image at a time.
Cypriano’s documentary Born to Be follows the profound journeys of several patients and doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
Two artists recast the iconography of consumerism—one into tradition-bending Kuwaiti dowry chests and the other into sculptures evoking raw flesh.
In her paintings, videos, and installations, Ganesh plays with the distinction between art object and artifact, myth and history, to posit alternative, emancipatory futures.
Film, performance, and sculpture that imagine exorcism as liberation.
On growing up in Alabama, boys as muses, finding queer community, snake handling, and more.
On writing a systems novel that accommodates a diverse cast of characters and the concerns of our hyper-digital times.
On navigating the success and failure dichotomy, the tropes of women friendship narratives, and working across mediums.
On writing to include others, artists who generate hope, and how constriction can be inventive.
The musician on her new memoir, how the muses showed up to help her write about grief, and the power of creativity during pandemic times.
Painting from the present and from history.
The writers on their debut short story collections, artifice as truth, and how music can teach you to write a sentence.
Paramodernities juxtaposes scholarly texts with movement, deconstructing iconic dances by Ailey, Balanchine, Cunningham, Fosse, Graham, and Nijinsky.
