Jina B. Kim’s Care at the End of the World (Duke, 2025) radicalizes what we think of as infrastructure in an increasingly-precarious contemporary landscape, one defined by racialized abandonment, isolation, and apocalyptic devastations. Infrastructures, in anthropologist…
Attending carefully to a work of art can shape our care for the world; slowing down to observe is itself an intervention in the rapidly deteriorating environments wrought by a system whose mantra is speed and…
Spring with its promise of winter….And it is December again,the snow outside. Or is it June full of sun — John Ashbery, “The Skaters” : : Nathaniel Dorsky’s silent, 45-minute avant-garde film, Hours for Jerome (1982),…
This conversation with the artist Maria Gaspar centers thinking about the relationship between art and protest, visual offerings, and an abolitionist aesthetics of possibility. We speak about avenues of liberation that emerge when we broadcast the…
Tania Ximena’s (Mexico b. 1985) La marcha del liquen (The Stride of Lichen, 2024) is a 29-minute experimental short that quietly unsettles our assumptions about distance, time, and environmental crisis. Shot in Yokot’an and Spanish, with Spanish…
Two recent exhibitions in New York, Inner Feast (Accent Sister, August 2025) and Group Lick (Tutu Gallery, April–June 2025), use food and appetite, digestion and consumption as their conceptual ground. Yet they engage with the topic…
On January 22, 2025, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University opened its entryway gallery to reveal the fantastical works of Anglo-Irish-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington. In doing so, the Rose became the first institution in New…
Museums lie at the center of much media coverage and popular debate in America today, the subject of controversy provoked by Trump’s insistence on rewriting history by influencing the curatorial direction of Washington cultural institutions. In…
I. Shuffle. In the history of music technology, this small button integrated into the Apple iPod in the early 2000s significantly changed the way we listen to music. Unbundled across artist, genre, region, and time period,…
