Matt Rota: Neo Colonialism and the Utopian Ideal

I recall, as if it were a dream, a visit long ago to the Musée Picasso in Paris during a summer study aboard program (was there ever such a thing).

Object Oriented: On Anne Russinof

Preface"The White Problem Redux"
& "3 x 3: Poems to Carry Us Now"

in lock-down, Mel Odom has been busy drawing; not the kind of illustrative drawing he is famous for--the drawings that have graced couture fashion campaigns and Times best-selling book jackets.

Living in a city driven by artistic ambition, “What are you working on” is the go-to question meant to quickly distill the daring of one’s aspirational reach, the aesthetic value of its form and the intent and likelihood of financial success and lasting fame. In the upheaval of social unrest and pandemic, the question sizes up how one is to staying alive.

The Silky Splendor of Pablo Garcia Lopez

Hyeseung Marriage-Song: Assembled Parts

Seasons in the Northeast are finicky and contrary (as are her natives).

“Mostly wooded and often dark, the places I inhabit are reimagined from memory and imagination and reflect upon the Germanic fairy tales of my childhood mixed with a dose of grown-up perspective.”

—Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

At first glance, Schaming’s constructions have a lot of curb appeal.

Artists move through life drifting in and out of hyper sentient states---their eyes and hearts wistfully, if not hypnotically, drawn to that numinous point in the far distance that alludes most of us--and defies verbal description.

Nancy Baker is back in New York, having recently returned from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where she was invited to participate in the Islamic Art Festival.