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Searching for the Switzerland of India
NASHVILLE — Photographer and video artist Christine Rogers didn't intend to end up in India on a Fulbright Scholarship searching for a folkloric "heaven on earth" known as the Switzerland of India.
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Queer Freakazoid Liberator Goddess: Dionysus for the 21st Century
You’ve probably heard of Dionysus, an Olympian god with a reputation for being a badass. What you didn’t know about him, however, is that he’s also your new androgynous goddess, ready to liberate all who grace his presence through the power of dance, ritual, magic, and music. When I happened upon Za
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On Photographing the Women of Gaza
CHICAGO — I didn't come across Tanya Habjouqa's photo series Women of Gaza underneath a sensationalized article headline about the Middle East. A friend posted one of her photos to my wall because it looked like a woman in a hijab shooting a selfie.
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Toward a New Queer Theology
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — With his wild-man beard, piratical silver earrings, heavy-rimmed specs and abiding interest in the occult, it wasn’t clear just how an unscheduled interview with sexagenarian AA Bronson would unfold.
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Beer with a Painter: Pat de Groot
I met Pat de Groot in the large, enchanting house she has lived in since the 1960s, on Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts. You enter through a front garden overgrown with kale, statues of the Buddha, and a memorial to her first dog, one of the loves of her life. Her living room is fill
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A Photographer Who Paints with Light
Jeremy "Tackyshack" Jackson's photography is a burst of silky color across a darkened universe.
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Commissioning Creativity from China's 'Artisan Imitators'
Zhenhan Hao's "Imitation" project turns the tables on Chinese artisans who normally create endless copies of art and crafts for global consumers.
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An Interview with the First Poet Laureate of MoMA
Kenneth Goldsmith and I sat down at our computers in constantly changing parts of the world, and we talked about his recent poet laureateship at the Museum of Modern Art. For the position, he delivered a special lecture and organized a series that invited contemporary poets to read in galleries to m
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What It's Like to Be the Sole Survivor of a Commercial Airline Disaster
CHICAGO — Chicago-based documentary filmmaker Ky Dickens' newest film, Sole Survivor, tells the stories of four of the 14 sole survivors of commercial airline disasters.
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Agricultural Evolution Leads to the New Garden City
CHICAGO — Before centuries of modernization and industry settled in, Gentofte, Denmark, was a simple farming town under the vision of a single lord with 42 serfs. Over the past 200 years, Gentofte has evolved into what is rightly considered a suburb. In the exhibition New Garden City, curator Aukje
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The Formative Formlessness of Cora Cohen
When Cora Cohen needed help in her studio, a mutual friend recommended she call me. The job started by looking and talking about her art. There were clashes. We have different and similar approaches to painting.
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Drawing the Grotesque Violence of Daily Life in Juárez
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Raúl Gonzalez was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up going back and forth between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, México. Juárez was, for a time, one of the most violent cities in the world. Drug cartel violence killed thousands while hundreds of women were abducted and murdered, or