Interview

Meet the US Southwest's Art Community: For Laura Copelin, “a Deep Relationship With Place” Opens Up New Avenues

An interview series spotlighting some of the creative community members in the US Southwest. Hear from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.

Art

In Nate Lewis’s Hands, Portraits Become Palpable Landscapes

Here are Black bodies in motion which Lewis freezes in time to remake into patterns of overlapping leaves or the stars of shrunken constellations.

Art

As MFA Shows Get Canceled, Alternative Projects Take Shape

It would be impossible for artists not to feel disappointed after dedicating themselves to rigorous and costly programs of study that tout MFA exhibitions as a crowning opportunity.

Art

What Relevance Can Art Have for Frontline Providers Right Now?

A museum educator, who generally works with medical students in the galleries, considers the healing potential of art.

Art

Disappointed in the World’s Most Viral Video

I asked myself what makes entertainment media go viral, in particular music videos, these videos that call up some feeling of want or remembrance so that millions of people (or perhaps billions) reach for them again and again.

Film

Looking at Ourselves Through Social Distance Cinema

A one-location movie tills fertile thematic ground for auteurs, celebrities, and ordinary people who explore facets of being alone through film and video — the subtle distinctions between solitude, loneliness, isolation, confinement, paranoia, and sanctuary.

Art

The Last Tourist in Assisi

A writer reflects on Giotto, St. Francis, and what it means to have faith amid a pandemic.

Art

A History of Disease, Faith, and Recovery in Rome

What happens when an epidemic strikes and that profoundly human urge to kiss and touch items thought to be sacred becomes part of the problem?

Art

Livestreams and Spirit in a Time of Pestilence

The emergence of spiritual circles online in the face of COVID-19 strikes me as the opposite of viral — a place to be still in the face of viral turbulence on the streets and in the air, and viral turbulence on social media and the broader internet.

Art

From Viruses to Algorithms, We Are Always Under Threat

What can we learn from the exponential unleashing of viral codes, as they circulate and duplicate beneath the surface of your cultural and physical world?

Art

The Pandemic’s Invisible Agent

Thin as one-thousandth the width of an eyelash, the malign virus appears to us in magnified images as a round glob of genetic material surrounded by a beady shell. The so-called crowns (corona in Latin) on its surface are its means of destruction.

Art

Introducing Our First Sunday Edition, Viral: 🦠From Pandemics to Popularity 🌐

Introducing our new Sunday edition, which will dive into both timely and timeless topics in a multifaceted way. For this first edition, we’ve chosen the theme “Viral.”