Features

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

By Helena Feder

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

By Robert Volpicelli

Smooth Parataxis and Polyvalent Montage: John Ashbery’s Poetics in Nathaniel Dorsky’s Avant-Garde Filmmaking

By Grace Hayes & Brendan Nagle

A Conversation with Artist Maria Gaspar on Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall

By Itzel Corona Aguilar

Ecological Relationality in La marcha del liquen

By Amanda Macedo Macedo

Where Brown Study Turns

By Monica Huerta

The ASAP Author Interview: Jules Mamone, A.K.A Femimutancia’s work for Queer Latin American Voices

By Paul Noguerol

Review of A Body to Live In (2025), directed by Angelo Madsen

By Amber Jamilla Musser

Real Estate Ecologies: The Case of Orange County

By Nick Earhart

Disney Trap House, Or: Atlanta’s Atlanta

By Mitch R. Murray

Castration, Aesthetics, and the Phallus: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer

By Rahul Sen

Not Monsters: On Las Azules and Structural Critique

By Melissa Chadburn

Aesthetic Absorption: On the Effects of Lingering with Rothko

By Matthew Scully

The ASAP Author Interview: Paloma Checa-Gismero’s Biennial Boom

By Michael Dango