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.
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.
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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.
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Women and Spiritualism in Art
In her new book The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult.
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Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art
Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.
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Chinese Artists Reimagine Queer Photography
If straightness implies direction, queerness in (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography suggests anything but.
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The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art
Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.
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Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time-Traveling Lens
Sugimoto’s photographs remind us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.
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The Eternal Life of Stone in Art
It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.
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The Material Remains of Memory
All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.
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In SoCal, All Freeways Lead to Tovaangar
"It is our responsibility — whether we are Native or not — to educate ourselves about whose land we are on,” writes artist Cara Romero.
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Paula Rego’s Animal Farm
To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.