“Life on the Fringe”?
Tamara de Lempicka receives her first major U.S. exhibition at San Francisco’s De Young Museum.
Being an “Art Monster”
What does it mean to be a monster? Lauren Elkin asks this in her latest nonfiction book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (2023).
Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga
Everything is freely given, but nothing is made easy in Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga, a joint exhibition on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Reconciling Immigration Discourses Through Art with Marta Djourina
Born in Bulgaria and having moved to Berlin, Germany to study art at the age of 18, Marta Djourina speaks about travel, immigration, longing, and nostalgia.
Everyone in New York Has Biceps
Everyone in New York has biceps ≠ Every New Yorker has biceps.
And now you do too.
Interior Design
She had often touched a reflection of herself in the hallway mirror. Sometimes when she ran by it, it wasn’t there. But if she stopped, she could see the whole clear outline of herself.
Queer Love, Everywhere: A Conversation with Omar Mismar
Lebanese artist Omar Mismar speaks with Gabriele Di Donfrancesco about queerness, foreignness, and the political dimension of art.
The Jocelyne Saab Association
Following the screening of Saab’s Beirut Trilogy at FICUNAM in Mexico City, Samuel Harwood spoke with Jinane Mrad, the Association’s Secretary and Deputy Director of Restoration.
FND and Me
I have a condition referred to as functional neurological disorder (FND). Upon its onset some years ago, while I was a full-time acrobatic circus student training 4-8 hours a day, 5 days a week, it functionally ruined my life. It is a type of dissociative disorder that manifests through physical symptoms similar to epileptic seizures.
Brianna Rose Brooks: Come Back As A Flower
At Deli Gallery, Brianna Rose Brooks blends memories with sentiments of Black intimacy and vulnerability, exploring fiction and the beautiful messiness of existence.
The Conflict Between Endless Possibilities and Reality
There is always space for endless possibilities, but there is only enough space in a lifetime for one path of living.
Basement Secrets: Cinema Supply’s “Lost and Found”
Artists Anoushka Bhalla, Wen-You Cai, Benny Or, Roxane Revon, Nicolas Tovar, and Chengtao Yi have each contributed a piece of themselves to the basement of Cinema Supply, in an exhibition that centers on vulnerability, family history, and memory.
The Beirut Trilogy by Jocelyne Saab
It is difficult to find a purer form of documentary than the Beirut Trilogy, which fulfills exactly the promise of the medium’s name. The three films document glimpses of the life of a cosmopolitan city – once known as “the Paris of the Middle East.”
Alejandra Seeber and the Freedom of Listening to the Creative Process
Argentine artist Alejandra Seeber presents her first solo exhibition and career survey in New York City, Interior with Landscapes, at the Americas Society (AS/COA).
Paula Modersohn-Becker Is
I Am Me is about celebrating Modersohn-Becker’s singularity, desires, and personhood.
Tomás Gómez Bustillo Captures the Magical and the Real
In the Argentinian farmlands, distant flashes of lightning are sometimes attributed to “wandering souls” in popular mythology. Saints hang on walls, flickering lights seem to speak, and even exaggerated sneezes seem preordained.
Gender, Nation, and Photography
It’s this demure, yet impactful timbre that embodies In The Now with the tension of the withheld, replete with turned backs, obscured glances, missing heads, shadows, furry disguises, folds, and curtains.
Emily Strasser Speaks the Unspeakable
In her incredibly well researched book, Strasser tries to make sense of Oak Ridge's complicated past, as it transformed a place of nature and stability into a source of man-made, unstable destruction.