Faith
...faith in the unseen while worshipping visibility itself,” she writes. Like materials for an altars the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera inspired experiences of the divine, which none other than Ansel...
Eine Kleine SpaceMusik
...which began as textile design. My discipline is design. I still think in those terms. I think about materials, about how they fit together. I think about communication. Do you...
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
...made from found materials and a single sewing machine. And in “Making Again, Making Against,” Paige Sweet writes of the artist Gerald Machona, whose medium is the famously inflationary Zimbabwean...
"Real beauty comes from within"
...isn't for cosmetics to be made out of innocuous materials. It's for women to lay themselves bear, allowing whichever pseudo-evolutionary-psychology choice-process to take place unimpeded. 'Natural beauty' is anything but...
Splay Attention
...photo by Ryan McNamara The best of a recent performance art festival takes seriously contemporary ways of looking at art 1. Materials for a review of Performa 13...
Not Content with Crumbs
...Ibsen, and the success of the latest performance at the Metropolitan Opera House. Late into the night they talked and between outbursts of indignation or sympathy sipped strong cups of...
Staying on Their Toes
...Musicians pace to and fro, humming snatches of the latest sonata. Actors grimace and puff their chests and declare their love in stentorian tones. White and soft as cream puffs,...
An assortment
...there can be an item on hair-care products "for dark skin," especially in a British context, a column promising "the latest beauty trends for black and Asian skin." Hair texture...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 22, 2019)
...take up farming Medical students and residents circulate a petition condemning changes to nutritional assistance proposed by the Trump administration KFC begins test-marketing it's latest offering: a chicken-and-doughnut sandwich Swede...
The Art of Antarctic Cooking
...offers a fine example. An air of mystery surrounded him. No one knew his true name or age because he fraternized little, preferring the company of Toby, the expedition's pet...
Blogs Round Up
...year, as selected for the New York Times by “people in an around the world of graphic design.” I love John Gall’s cover for Houellebecq’s latest (slide 1) and Keith...
Baghdad, Beirut, Paris: Six Women to Think With
...her home. And her latest painting is a gesture of sympathy with those suffering in Paris after the terrorist rampage there. “I love Paris because it symbolizes happiness to me,”...
Scream Queens
...girl is his latest experiment. In his letter to Laemmle, Joy wrote, “Our feeling is that the screaming of the woman … is overstressed.” But it is not the woman’s...
This Week in Art Crime
...travelling on the Oxenholme to Penrith train. The latest “sighting” comes from Cockermouth where Banksy is alleged to have popped into Wild Zucchinis restaurant on 19 January to admire the...
Pray for Chic
...heterogeneous body of work. The artist, 30, is a Bushwick-living autodidact who performs icon worship with the twisted élan of a latter-day Mary Magdalene. Her latest two person show with...
Sunday Reading
...Novelists on Why They Write Empire Bakuba - "Kwasa Kwasa," Syllart Production Mother’s boys: conversations with the parents of Russia’s neo-Nazis Praying while Shi’a: the NYPD’s latest religious profiling scandal...