Books
A Guide to Witchcraft in the Blockchain Era
Spell Bound helps readers curious about the craft to both see and understand the wide array of expressions that magic can assume, including in the context of new technologies.
Review
Art
The Enthralling Solitude of Leigh Werrell's Art
For Werrell, moments of disconnection and isolation in the city become opportunities to find enchantment in the act of looking.
Art
Long Live Life’s Little Moments
Han's paintings are at once cryptic and straightforward, inaccessible and yet meticulously laid out.
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Photographing History’s Silences and Gaps
A former journalist, Sim Chi Yin came to question the primacy of archival sources after realizing the deliberate decisions behind what gets included or excluded.
Film
What Does AI Dance-Pop Sound Like?
The Computer Accent follows the pop-dance band YACHT as they use AI to help compose their 2019 album Chain Tripping.
Art
Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
Film
The Story of a Man’s Friendship With a Cloud
Through its magical realism, The Cloud & the Man posits the power of love in adding a tinge of color to an overlooked, black-and-white life.
Art
Juan Sánchez's Nuyorican State of Mind
From painting to photography, the artist’s sophisticated hybrid aesthetic echoes the very condition of being Nuyorican.
Art
The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It
The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.
Art
Dean Fleming Paints the Fourth Dimension
Fleming's geometric paintings are not the Minimalism of Greenberg and Judd, with their insistence on flatness and the elimination of space in painting.
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Greek Mythology as an Allegory for Gay Dating
Paul Anagnostopoulos's painted terra cottas are rife with rich allegory to unpack — whether you’re LGBTQ+ or not.
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Reframed
A new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum renders the artist’s persona through newly identified photographs.