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…
“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…
“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.…
At one point in Gangsterism, Isiah Medina’s 2025 experimental feature film, the protagonist, filmmaker Clem, confronts the comrade he suspects of unauthorized online leaks of his film. The respondent, seemingly the only white character in the film,…
The Prada Rong Zhai sits on North Shaanxi Road in Shanghai, behind a stretch of wall and a detail of guards. Built in the early twentieth century as a private mansion, with Corinthian columns, leaded-glass windows,…
American artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025), one of the founding members of Fluxus—an international network of artists, composers, and poets most active in the 1960s and 1970s—long remained without the kind of dedicated scholarly monograph afforded to…
