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INTERVIEWS

Writing Toggle

Book cover of "Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection, An Anthology," edited by Samantha Paige Rosen, featuring a colorful painted grid of houses in blue, green, and orange tones on a sage green background.

Samantha Paige Rosen by Kristen Martin

Essays and interviews on the many possibilities for communal living.

Julie Buntin Famous Men Mock Up

Julie Buntin by Adam Dalva

A young woman’s search for her father becomes a search for the truth.

Book cover mockup for "Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories" by Emily Doyle, red background with a fractured classical portrait split between a painted and photographic half, and a blurbed quote from Laila Lalami calling it "messy, horny, funny, and ultimately profound."

Emily Doyle by Lily Felsenthal

In this story collection, ghosts and aliens reveal layered truths about consent and autonomy.

Book cover for "You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters" by Rachel Aviv, featuring a blurred, dreamlike portrait of overlapping faces in warm tones against a terracotta background.

Rachel Aviv by Yvonne Conza

An essay collection that revisits unforgettable lives from different vantage points.

Book cover mockup for "Konbit" by Sony Ton-Aime, featuring a bronze sculpture of a kneeling man in broken chains raising a machete, set against a sage-green background.

Sony Ton-Aime by Z. L. Nickels

A debut poetry collection that reimagines the communal solidarity of the Haitian revolution. 

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Visual Art Toggle

A painting on paper filled with yellow rectangles.

Garry Noland by Brandan Griffin 

Artworks that repurpose and elevate everyday materials.

An installation view of shiny cone-shaped sculptures with photographs on the wall.

Gisela Colón by Monica Uszerowicz

Artworks that connect the body, the Earth, and geological time. 

A sculpture of paint on canvas spans the wall and floor of an exhibition space. The form recalls the US Supreme Court building and is painted in shades of blue latex paint. The pillars slump to the floor, and the top of the building is folded over.

Rodney McMillian by Dave McKenzie

Without sacrificing humor and “the sexy” in his pursuit of rigorous critique, the artist engages particular histories and figures as a means to find empathy and understanding.

A black slip cast sculpture on a dark gray platform in front of a white background. The sculpture is composed of a round object, a Ball jar, and a grainy block of wood.

An Oral History Project Excerpt with Debra Priestly by Nancy Grossman

The artist discusses the impacts of memory, history, cultural preservation, and belonging on her practice.

A pink and purple abstract painting with a black letter F at the top.

Sue Tompkins by Joel Danilewitz

A vibrant range of works inspired by text and writing. 

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Painting Toggle

A painting of two Black woman in a bathroom with one sitting in a tub.

Miranda Forrester by Stephanie E. Goodalle

Painting the fluidities of queer Black women’s lives. 

A painting of the torso and head of a man reclining next to a pair of glasses.

Louis Fratino by Jo Smail

Art that protects a sense of pleasure and play.

A yellow and blue abstract painting featuring mostly indecipherable thin letters.

Rebecca Watson Horn by Caitlin Keogh

Paintings that playfully interrupt language’s legibility. 

A large abstract painting featuring mirror images of squiggly paint.

Emily Kraus by Andrew Woolbright

Inventing an apparatus to build a new painting language with a human touch.

An oval abstract work made with bands of colored pencil and thread.

Tia Keobounpheng by Sheila Regan

Threading geometric patterns to find the Earth’s heartbeat. 

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Photography Toggle

A black-and-white photograph of a woman standing in front of a lightning strike.

Alex Westfall by Charlotte Youkilis

Photographs that hold multiple pasts.

A black and white photograph of Shawn Walker. He is wearing a t-shirt and fishing vest; clutching a Canon camera to his chest and squinting through his glasses. He appears middle aged, with an unkempt beard.

An Oral History Project Excerpt with Shawn Walker by Charles Daniel Dawson

The photographer explains how Harlem, where he has lived a lifetime, and its music scene have influenced his approach to photography as an art form.

A photograph of a curved hanger dangling in front of a building and a sunset.

Anastasia Samoylova by Monica Uszerowicz

Photographing small monuments in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

A red book cover with a small photograph of a woman on it but no words.

Martha Naranjo Sandoval by Marley Trigg Stewart 

Documenting a decade in a new country. 

The artsists stand side by side, both in white, in front of their mantle.

An Oral History with Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun by Kara Tucina Olidge

The photographers met as teenagers in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, and their practice has been informed by community engagement and partnership ever since.

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Installation & Sculpture Toggle

A sculpture featuring a piece of wood in front of a large frame with a small photograph inside it.

Kainoa Gruspe by Yutong Shi

Art as a way of understanding relationships to place.

A sculpture of the midsection of a body with a screen embedded in it.

Ellie Krakow by Ayden LeRoux

Declining nudes and the fragmentation of the sick body. 

Three vertical sculptures made with different kinds of inexpensive materials and with a red ribbon dangling from each of them.

Louis Osmosis by Blake Oetting

Sculptures that gum more than they gnaw.

A close-up of Lotus L. Kang’s Born Inside Death installation, which features bird statues on a mirror surface.

Lotus L. Kang by Lara Mimosa Montes

With poetry as her companion, Kang combines singular objects and volatile materials in installations that do not distill the origins of her work but rather, she says, “explode them.”

A large ceramic work with black and white stripes sits on a small wood platform on a concrete floor. The stripes intersect at odd angles, creating a basketweave effect. Light bounces of the top of the sculpture.

Jun Kaneko by Mark Mack

When he isn’t painting or designing operas, the artist hand-builds massive ceramic pieces that defy the material limitations of the clay he’s handled for decades.

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Illustration Toggle

Collage image of a checkerboard background with a white hand in a tangled rope with white and black shapes around it.

Caitlin Keogh by Caroline Elbaor

Painting the fragmented body.

Digital collage of a variety of images like peaches, pink circles, and a drawn image of a minister.

Sadie Benning by Lia Gangitano

“With film, you have sound and you can construct this whole environment that allows for a certain feeling to exist for someone watching. There’s more of a burden on a painting to develop these kinds of feelings or experiences in one frame.”

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Video Toggle

A video still of a woman sitting on a bed combing her long brown hair.

Saodat Ismailova by Dorrell Merritt

Films that transform Central Asian history and spirituality. 

Still from a black-and-white animation of police officers standing around a ghost.

Haig Aivazian by Jared Quinton

Animation as a form of propaganda that seeks to seduce and mobilize. 

A video still of a helmeted motorcycle rider with text above.

Ayoung Kim by Brian Droitcour

Integrating game engines, motion capture, and generative AI to reimagine the past and future. 

A group of people on risers to the left watch a projected video on the right.

CAMP by Upasana Das

Piracy, surveillance, and the counter-institutionalization of the gaze.

An image of a red flaming head with white text on a black background toward the top and bottom of the frame.

Ho Tzu Nyen by Yutong Shi

Making worlds resonate.

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Textile Art Toggle

A textile work appears on a white wall, a few feet from a wood floor. The work is almost square and has seven stripes: four with a pink-gray background, three with a white background. Overlapping ovals in shades of green, orange, purple, pink, and white fill the stripes.

Elaine Reichek by Sabrina Gschwandtner

Since the 1970s, the artist has mobilized fabric, thread, and literary and art historical references to beautiful, critical ends, prefiguring feminist discourse while playing with the complexities of text and image.

A textile work featuring an image of an Asian person holding a flag and standing next to a sign.

Jia Sung by Sahana Ramakrishnan

Art as a form of connective tissue.

Rows of small white humanoid features holding sticks.

Alberto Pitta by Jareh Das

Ancestry, community, and Carnivale textile artistry.

A photo of three long, curving textile works featuring figures of woman.

Citra Sasmita by Chloe Chu

Art as a spiritual path.

A set of small objects and black-and-white drawings on a large white surface.

Anne Wilson by Jared Quinton

Old and new technologies.

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Film Toggle

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Andrei Zvyagintsev by Nicolas Rapold

A drama about a Russian businessman’s violent breakdown shaped by the Ukraine war and the director’s battle with Covid.

An archival image from the 1970s-80s of two college-aged men in skimpy athletic outfits perusing gay magazines.

Kalil Haddad by Sarah Fensom

A program of expressionistic short films searches for lost figures and histories in the queer archive. 

In the dark, the Rimbaud character lights a pipe. Next to him, there's a pale table with a small gold clock and ink bottle.

Patrick Wang by Carlos Valladares

Arthur Rimbaud’s improbable life is translated to film using his correspondence and poetic techniques. 

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Mary Harron by Carlos Valladares

Valerie Solanas and Andy Warhol violently converge in a debut feature that began as a documentary idea.

A husband and wife duo from China take a selfie in front of Torino's cityscape and the mountains beyond.

Jia Zhangke by Nicolas Rapold

A short film travels from China to Torino, Italy, in pursuit of cinema history. 

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Music Toggle

On an industrial rooftop in Brooklyn with an "FDNY Access" sign, Florence Road is set up for a show. The band is comprised of four Irish women in their early 20s, all dressed in black with a sun flare behind them.

Florence Road by Tadhg Hoey

The up-and-coming Irish band pauses between tour stops to reflect on their music-making process. 

A black-and-white slightly blurry image of a Black man in a white t-shirt.

Valee and MVW by Branden W. Joseph

A rap collaboration featuring a postminimalist composer and an intricate lyricist. 

A black-and-white portrait photograph of a man with shaggy hair and glasses sitting on a stool. He is spotlit and has one leg crossed over his knee. He has a faint smile.

Jeff Tweedy by Tom Comitta

After the US tour for his solo triple album, Twilight Override, the lead vocalist and guitarist of Wilco speaks to the power of finding joy, embracing the absurd, and not trusting yourself.

A small figure dances in the center of a dark brown grassland. Above them is a high, pale sky with a spiral snake illustration in the upper left corner.

Terence Nance by I. Augustus Durham

The multi-faceted artist contemplates how his recent album crosses into film, television, and the fourth dimension. 

An image of the corner of a concrete and metallic room.

Anysia Kym by Branden W. Joseph

A musical collaboration that challenges expectations.

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Theater & Performance Toggle

A dimly lit audience sits close to a concert stage where musicians and singers are expressively performing a song.

César Alvarez by Brian Eugenio Herrera

Family connection to the Greensboro Massacre gives rise to a community-centered musical. 

The performer, seated atop a set of stairs, is silhoutted in profile against a golden backdrop with a lifesaver on it.

Morgan Bassichis by D/Annie Liontas

A solo performance urges us to remember one of the first openly queer comedians lost in the AIDS epidemic.

Samora Pinderhughes playing the piano. Behind him, a large projection of half a woman’s face is shown.

Samora Pinderhughes by Jason Moran

Uniting art and activism, the composer’s recent performances at MoMA were attuned to people affected by structural violence and created spaces of communal healing.

A headshot of Dynasty Handbag in a beige mesh sack with smeared clown-color goth makeup and a ratty blond-black Siouxsie-Sioux wig.

Dynasty Handbag by Brontez Purnell

Finding new ways to face difficult experiences in written memoir and staged performance. 

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a.k. payne and Aleshea Harris by Ashley M. Thomas

A play about cousins navigating a three-day prison furlough brings together a community of Black theatermakers. 

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Dance Toggle

At the front of a tree-lined field dotted with V-shaped wooden fence sculptures, a tanned performer with a bleached buzzcut and red tulle costume speaks into a microphone. Some audience members are scattered behind.

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte by Darvejon Jones

The creation of movement as a collective and the inclusion of entire communities in the artmaking process.

A black-and-white photo of two dancers dressed in black doing a semi-backbend embrace. They are hemmed in by an audience in a small apartment space.

Anna Thérèse Witenberg by David Levine

The visceral impact of fashion silhouettes and close-up shots in balletic duets. 

Three dancers are at the center of a composition, enclosed by cylinder of Plexiglas mirrors that refract the venue's cathedral-esque windows. Two of the dancers kneel with interlocked arms while the last lunges behind them, arms braced toward a mirror.

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born by Amit Noy

A durational performance engages with memory and relation in mirrored, sonically rich environs. 

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Anh Vo by Moriah Evans

The choreographer discusses worshipping the Downtown Brooklyn Apple Store, drawing on Vietnamese folk singing traditions and rituals, and how nudity allows for a “dichotomy of concealment and disclosure” in their performances.

Walker's head is braced on the asphalt of the road and the rest of their body is suspended in a pose that resembles walking. Above the gridded concrete wall that lines the road, the blue sky can be seen, dotted with clouds.

Lewis Walker by Lisette May Monroe

The performing artist considers community built on queer culture and isolation in gymnastics. 

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Architecture Toggle

The elevation view of Colectivo C733’s market in Matamoros, Mexico, from the brick patio outside. The market is enclosed by a red brick wall that supports a metal armature holding a metal and brick trapezoidal forms that create the market’s roof. A man in a reflective safety vest walks toward the open entrance past dry planted trees in the patio.

Gabriela Carrillo by Fernanda Canales

Grounded in collaboration and emotion, the architect’s projects have transformed public spaces across Mexico and how her field responds to communities in times of crisis.

The artist, a Black woman with short hair wearing printed sneakers and a white sweat suit, smiles, sitting in a chair in her studio with one foot up on a stool. In the background, maps, posters, and other printouts are pinned to the wall.

An Oral History with Amanda Williams by Lauren Halsey

Amanda Williams, a visual artist and trained architect, discusses the ability to formulate architecture whose potential is both real and imagined with her mentee, Lauren Halsey. 

Footage of an industrial flare in Death Alley, filmed by RISE St. James, is superimposed over a monument of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Forensic Architecture) © FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE, 2021

Eyal Weizman by Rhoda Feng

The originator of Forensic Architecture discusses a methodology of "investigative aesthetics" for revealing human rights abuses as manifested in built environments.

A large concrete circle in a grassy field titled, ”Sometimes the Clouds Come Back this Way,“ by Nancy Nowacek.

Nancy Nowacek by Louis Bury

A multidisciplinary artist talks about collaborative work.

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Atelier Bow-Wow by Sunil Bald

Transforming the precepts of urban morphology.

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RETROSPECTIVES

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