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

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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I met Didier William in the fall of 2018, when he came to Pratt Institute to critique our undergraduate students. Didier and I talked about our varied experiences as people of color in academia. He ...

In recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has taken a giant step forward on a path long in the ...

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.

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, ...

Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you are sitting towards 54th street, in the Cullman offices, in ...

Within the flood of new trans memoirs and books offering their definitive takes on trans theory in the past few years, I gratefully found hannah baer’s book, Trans Girl Suicide Museum (Hesse Press, ...