Art
Nathan Vincent Crochets Away Toxic Masculinity
Drawing on his knitting and crochet skills, Vincent softens hard surfaces, such as steel lockers and locks, porcelain urinals, guns, grenades, and bombs.
Nathan Vincent
Art
Tracing the Interconnectedness of Art and Video Games
As a recent exhibition at the Akron Art Museum demonstrates, video games are at a creative peak, as fine artists respond to and play with video gaming culture, visuals, and communities.
Interview
Stitching Not Bitching
CHICAGO — John Chaich's exhibition Queer Threads considers artworks that use craft aesthetics to reclaim, reimagine, and renegotiate previously accepted hierarchies of visual culture.
Opinion
How Good You Must Be When Everyone Can See
CHICAGO — In the age of social-networked identities, when every private thought is often public declaration, what does it mean to be "good" or "bad"? Our words become performances, our self-portraits become selfies, and we are present as online brands. It becomes hard to take emotional moments serio