The Current recently spoke with local artist Karl Frey about his education, inspirations, artwork, and his attempts to revive what he calls the Lost American Folk Aesthetic (as Frey stated, it’s ...

After a 6-year hiatus, Long Island-based singer/songwriter Joe Iadanza announced his return with the release of a 1970's inspired folk-rock love letter titled, "Common Man." With words and music ...

He calls it his queer aesthetic. Moreover, he says, if women can become CEOs of major corporations, he can sit at home and sew. “I’m a big, burly guy, and I’m making quilts,” he says.

Aesthetic ecologies, affective ecologies, and somaesthetics pierce the body and pinion its parts to its worlds. Aesthetic inquiry in folkloristics properly undertakes an anatomy of desire. The Journal ...