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Breaking the Back of the Classics: Fanbinding and the Beautiful Book

In 2008, the publishing giant Penguin Random House launched their Penguin Clothbound Classics (PCC) series, featuring attractively bound copies of the English literary canon. The books are affordable collectibles with a clear aesthetic formula: linen hardcovers,…

By Caroline Bailey and Luca Messarra

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Story Time: West Hollywood’s New AIDS Monument

By Jason Alley

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Traces of the Self: An Interview with Eric Schmaltz

By Myra Bloom

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Review of Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself

By Emma Peters

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Katherine Hubbard’s The Great Room and Beyond: Oddkin in the Expanded Darkroom of the Photobook

By David Berridge

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Reimagined Horrors of Ibadan: A Review of Thematic Concerns and Yoruba Significance in The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau

By Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo

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Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy at Esker Foundation

By Margaryta Golovchenko

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Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase

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From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion

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Algorithms and the Occult

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Katherine Hubbard’s The Great Room and Beyond: Oddkin in the Expanded Darkroom of the Photobook

The mirrored closet doors are part of a collection of architectural salvage. Once obtained, they sit in an already stuffed-full house in upstate New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic their new owner, Antonette Berger, began suffering…

By David Berridge

On Extractive Aesthetics: The Rising Dragon (2025) and the Terraforming of Tibet

The explosive sparks and fiery arcs that flared across the Himalayan range for Cai Guo-Qiang’s site-specific artwork The Rising Dragon quickly drew the ire of environmentalists. Staged in September 2025, the firework project was a realization…

By Tianren Luo

Fast Extinction, Slow Art: On Work by Henry Ossawa Tanner and Neil Welliver

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…

By Helena Feder

Recycling Modernism in the Pacific Islands: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez—recent winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, promoter of Pacific Islander literature and culture, and environmental thinker—is keen on recycling modernism. Consider “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens),”…

By Robert Volpicelli

Review of Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself

The break-up letter—in all its melodramatic glory— is not only a stinging force of creative inspiration (Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms may have never been penned if not for World War II nurse Agnes von Kurowsky’s…

By Emma Peters

Reimagined Horrors of Ibadan: A Review of Thematic Concerns and Yoruba Significance in The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau

Displacement, Paul Liam observes in a review-essay, is a central aesthetic in the poetics of diasporic writers, either subconsciously or not, in such a way that the exiled writer is constantly questioning their “belongingness to a…

By Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo

Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy at Esker Foundation

During my visit to Jana Sterbak’s retrospective on opening night, I did not immediately recognize the famed “meat dress,” Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987). The flank steak from which the piece was stitched…

By Margaryta Golovchenko

The Wing that Remains: Organic Afterlife of Ming Fay at The Campus

2025 Annual Exhibition, The Campus341 NY-217, Claverack, NYJune 28 — October 26, 2025 A soft light washes along the old school corridor. The air feels slightly cool, carrying the faint scent of tile and paint. It is…

By Renee Yu Jin