Books
How a Tarot Deck Led to a Revolution
What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.
AX Mina
AX Mina is an artist and culture writer exploring contemporary spirituality, technology and other sundry topics. She co-produces Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice, and serves on the board of the Rabkin Foundation.
Art
Healing Japanese Art for the End Times
A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.
Art
Jonathan Baldock Taps Into the Spirit of Trees
Combining queerness, the natural world, and paganism, Baldock’s expressive, quirky works expand on the very nature of earth-based spirituality.
Art
A Summer Solstice Tarotscope for the Art World
For each solstice and equinox, Hyperallergic will present a tarotscope with a special focus on the arts and creative practice, to mark the turning of the seasons.
Art
Four Artists’ Pictures of an Unspeakable Past
The four artists featured in Peeling the Onion confront the long-lasting trauma that people and families carry through the generations.
Art
Peeling Back the Layers of Religious Devotion
The artists in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art offer complex perspectives on religion grounded in their lived experiences.
Art
In Venice, Art Bears Witness to Chaos
What role can art play in helping us understand a time of great chaos and what role can national pavilions play in a time when nation states are ever present?
Art
A Venice Show Centers Disability Justice
Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.
Film
Lesbian Bars Make a Much-Needed Comeback
The new documentary All We’ve Got shows audiences the range of spaces designed as lesbian community hubs, performance venues, and places for dancing and partying.
Books
Objects That Tell the History of LGBTQ+ Resistance
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects serves less as a catalog and more as a continuation of a years-long effort to tell a millennia-long history.
Books
Why We Still Need the Godzilla Network
If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.
Art
Hannah Toticki Searches for Our Guardian Angels
With Storage of the Gods, the artist explores what a spiritual practice can look like in our secular, stressed-out world.