The first time I call the Dial-A-Poem Hong Kong hotline, I hear Leung Ping-Kwan’s “The Thunderbolt and the Cicada Song.” This initial experience of Dial-A-Poem is mediated by the limits of my Cantonese proficiency. I understand some individual lines,…
“The First Novel Written by AI is Here,” an article proclaimed in 2018. The author doubted AI tools could ever write a good novel but nevertheless conceded that one “might just see fragments of meaning thrown into a neural network…
1: The Giantess When I first saw her in 2023, I had a job that paid me to tell stories about animals and an apartment in Berlin I rarely left. Most days I was squirreled under…
The 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” cites One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez as one of its inspirations—the story of Macondo, the town where the novel unfolds. A fragment that never made…
By Alt Går Bra (Branko Boero Imwinkelried and Agnes Nedregård)
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Aaron Cobbett’s analog camera immortalized queer nightlife in Manhattan’s East Village through fabulous photo shoots that both rivaled contemporary fashion editorials and rejected the fashion world’s unattainable beauty ideals. Most…
In December 2015, at the close of Acting Out: A Symposium of Indigenous Performance Art in Santa Fe, Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore appeared as a projected face wearing a paper “Indian Brave” mask bought at a UK dollar…
Coalition Literature offers a future for art that expresses and inspires effective protest, drawing on twentieth-century leftist power. Francisco Robles’s book is an illuminating literary history of multiethnic America, confronting questions in the contemporary US landscape around…
The tension between the global and the local has long been a productive site of debates within queer studies. Transnational queer scholarship in recent years has largely moved away from “including” Asia for globalization of queer theory,…
“Yves Saint Laurent and Photography”June 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026International Center of Photography (ICP) How best to present the dialogue between fashion and photography? Each medium depends on the other—for material, for inspiration, for documentation.…
