The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, ...

Lisa Locascio Nighthawk’s writing has appeared in n+1, Tin House, The Believer, and Alta Journal, and is forthcoming in ...

In Misdemeanor Dream, a new play presented at La MaMa by the performance collective Spiderwoman Theater, earlier this spring, Indigenous fairies sing, dance, tell… ...

As I crossed the threshold into the dimly lit opening gallery that introduced Nadia Myre’s exhibition at the National Gallery ...

Alexandra Nordstrom. Alexandra Nordstrom is a Montréal-based cultural worker, curator, researcher, and art historian. Her ...

Caroline Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and publisher based in the Bay Area. Art criticism and comics appear in ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small and skeletal, with an exposed spine and arteries: dredging pipes that ...

In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot from the floor. Their color resulted from ...

Recently, I’ve been enjoying art that disappears. Art that combusts, implodes, melts, burns; that’s what I’m after. Google Gustav Metzger’s singed, barely-there canvases, for example, which he burned ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.