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 ...

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, ...

Along with the blog posts, articles, reviews, and interviews collected in K-Punk, last year’s voluminous anthology of writings by the late British cultural theorist Mark Fisher, there was an ...