The late artist Carole Caroompas was once asked why rock and roll provided such generative source material for her paintings ...

Paula Mejia. Paula Mejía is a Colombian American writer and editor from Houston, Texas. Her writing on arts and culture has ...

I sat in the last row of the bus, watching the scenery dissolve into dusk, each passing moment echoing the temporal ...

Qing Sheng. Qing Sheng is a writer, artist, and researcher based in Vancouver. She has a background in environmental design ...

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The sound of breathing permeated the space. It was unsettling not only because this encounter happened in the middle of a pandemic in which a functioning lung meant survival, but also because ...

In Vox Populi, Vox Dei, Tau Lewis’s recent exhibition at 52 Walker, textiles and temporal forces worked together to unstitch and rethread imperial mythmaking. Lewis’s monumental sculptures, inspired ...

No one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows the right thing to say, the right name to check.

As the longest-running institutional survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial never fails to create “discourse.” Each iteration makes a claim about the cultural moment in which it ...

In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape and gazes out at a house beside a mountain. A red bird hovers just off shore, ...