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INTERVIEWS

Writing Toggle

Rakha Mockup

Youssef Rakha by Brad Fox

The essay collection Postmuslim draws on Islamic heritage to transcend religion.

The cover of Ask Me About the Money, a nighttime photograph of a motel entrance off a highway with neon lights in disrepair.

Keith Pilapil Lesmeister by Katy Simpson Smith

Stories about saving, spending, and the love that happens in between.

The black-and-red abstract cover of Song in Tammuz against a pale sage green backdrop.

Avia Tadmor by Sarah M. Sala

Poems that approach sisterhood as cross-generational, cross-cultural, and cross-lingual.

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Eliana Otta by Dominy Gallo

Mourning the more than human.

Book cover for A Real Animal, a novel by Emeline Atwood: a dark, blurred horned animal walking away into a haze of orange light, with a smaller indistinct figure ahead of it in the distance.

Emeline Atwood by Tara Anne Dalbow

A debut novel about complicated love and its wild, physical, animal edges.

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Visual Art Toggle

A photograph of a studio filled with black and yellow text-based works.

Studio Visit: Jane Benson

Fragmenting and reanimating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein across text, sound, and space.

A photograph of a wooden folding chair at the center, a black-and-white photograph of the same chair on the wall to the left of the chair, and a definition of the word “chair” to the right.

Joseph Kosuth by KliÃģ and NoÃŦma Kosuth

Chronicling the burgeoning New York City art world and its famous contenders, the conceptual artist shares his generational investigation into meaning-making.

A projected video onto thin fabric of a Black woman sitting next to a window.

Mildred Howard by Max Blue

A retrospective layers information to tell stories and convey memories. 

A colorful geometric drawing of an imaginary playground.

Typoe Gran by Alexandra Martinez

World-building across drawing, sculpture, and public art.

A book cover featuring a black-and-white image of a dancer.

Collier Schorr by Megan O’Grady

A photographer re-creates a film in dance. 

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Painting Toggle

A painting of two women working with textiles next to a painting of flowers.

Lubaina Himid by Ksenia M. Soboleva

Paintings that claim presence in a pavilion shaped by imperial history. 

A painting of a man wearing sunglass lying on a green couch.

Louis Eisner by Addis Goldman

Masterpieces worn like memories.

A thick yellow and green painting of flowers and weeds.

Michael Assiff by Marcus Civin

Painting the ecology and industrial debris of the United States.

A painting of two shirtless men cuddling against a blue backdrop.

Oscar yi Hou by Hanna Dobroszycki

Paintings that bring the queer rave home with them.

A detail of a large oil and acrylic painting. The detail shows leaves and ground, and contains mostly shades of green. Some areas are abstract and brushy; others are more representational. The background contains the printed word “NATURE.”

Firelei BÃĄez by Ekow Eshun

The artist blends folklore and science fiction to create her paintings and sculptures, imagining a new world from real histories of colonial violence.

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Photography Toggle

A black-and-white photograph of a boxer with his back turned to the camera. The boxer’s head seems to rest on his gloved hands. The bones of his upper spine and shoulder blades are prominent.

Elle PÃĐrez by Catherine Opie

The photographer discusses how queerness cannot be nailed down in their images, the roles Xerox and collage play in their practice, and the origins of their new monograph, Devotions.

A black-and-white photograph of a woman standing in front of a lightning strike.

Alex Westfall by Charlotte Youkilis

Photographs that hold multiple pasts.

A black and white photograph of Shawn Walker. He is wearing a t-shirt and fishing vest; clutching a Canon camera to his chest and squinting through his glasses. He appears middle aged, with an unkempt beard.

An Oral History Project Excerpt with Shawn Walker by Charles Daniel Dawson

The photographer explains how Harlem, where he has lived a lifetime, and its music scene have influenced his approach to photography as an art form.

A photograph of a curved hanger dangling in front of a building and a sunset.

Anastasia Samoylova by Monica Uszerowicz

Photographing small monuments in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

A red book cover with a small photograph of a woman on it but no words.

Martha Naranjo Sandoval by Marley Trigg Stewart 

Documenting a decade in a new country. 

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Installation & Sculpture Toggle

An installation featuring two woooden sculptures and two works on the wall behind them.

Cole Lu by Ho Won Kim

Art and archival work about how the past is remembered and made visible.

An upright triangular sculpture made with weathered wood.

James Perkins by Stephanie E. Goodalle

Collaborating with nature to make a sculptural mark.

Strings of concrete beads draped over a metal framework.

Luna Palazzolo-Daboul by Monica Uszerowicz

Sculpture that treats labor as devotional. 

A ceramic sculpture of a pink and green raised snake with red eyes.

Roxanne Jackson by Carolina Wheat

Ceramics that show that death is only a metaphor.

A rusted metal object placed on a floating piece of wood.

MariÃĐ Nobematsu-Le Gassic by Sophie Golub

Negotiating in movement and image the gaps between languages.

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Video Toggle

A digital projection of an ice sheet and water.

Janet Biggs by Jane Ursula Harris

Environmental art that also negotiates personal relationships.

A video still of a woman sitting on a bed combing her long brown hair.

Saodat Ismailova by Dorrell Merritt

Films that transform Central Asian history and spirituality. 

Still from a black-and-white animation of police officers standing around a ghost.

Haig Aivazian by Jared Quinton

Animation as a form of propaganda that seeks to seduce and mobilize. 

A video still of a helmeted motorcycle rider with text above.

Ayoung Kim by Brian Droitcour

Integrating game engines, motion capture, and generative AI to reimagine the past and future. 

A group of people on risers to the left watch a projected video on the right.

CAMP by Upasana Das

Piracy, surveillance, and the counter-institutionalization of the gaze.

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Textile Art Toggle

A textile work appears on a white wall, a few feet from a wood floor. The work is almost square and has seven stripes: four with a pink-gray background, three with a white background. Overlapping ovals in shades of green, orange, purple, pink, and white fill the stripes.

Elaine Reichek by Sabrina Gschwandtner

Since the 1970s, the artist has mobilized fabric, thread, and literary and art historical references to beautiful, critical ends, prefiguring feminist discourse while playing with the complexities of text and image.

A textile work featuring an image of an Asian person holding a flag and standing next to a sign.

Jia Sung by Sahana Ramakrishnan

Art as a form of connective tissue.

Rows of small white humanoid features holding sticks.

Alberto Pitta by Jareh Das

Ancestry, community, and Carnivale textile artistry.

A photo of three long, curving textile works featuring figures of woman.

Citra Sasmita by Chloe Chu

Art as a spiritual path.

A set of small objects and black-and-white drawings on a large white surface.

Anne Wilson by Jared Quinton

Old and new technologies.

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Film Toggle

A figure in shadow sits in the driver's seat of a surreal vehicle that seems to be outlined in red and white neon. The neon outlines are echoed behind the figure.

John Torres by Alexander Mooney

After two decades of experimental documentaries, the filmmaker’s debut fiction feature bridges science fiction and noir.

A strip of black-and-white Kodak Safety Film with three photos of Barbara Hammer on a rocky beach. In the center image, marked with a yellow X in the corner, Hammer points a camera at the camera.

Brydie O’Connor by Elissa Suh

Utilizing queer chronology to craft a documentary out of a groundbreaking artist’s deep archive.

On an arid desert hill capped by a seemingly ancient stone building, a veteran archaeologist walks toward the camera. Her blond hair is pulled back and she wears a button-down blue-grey shirt with a backpack slung over one shoulder.

Valeska Grisebach by Alexander Mooney

The filmmaker’s latest draws from the Western genre, gangster films, and Bulgarian clubbing culture in the 1990s.

A closeup of John Smith's face in a neutral expression on a black background. He has short white hair, white skin, and a red plaid shirt.

John Smith by Alexander Mooney

An avant-garde short inspired by a celebrity encounter in an elevator explores the porousness of identity.

A queer Zillennial couple embrace in a blue waiting room decorated with rainbow pennants. One partner is pale with dark hair; the other is darkskinned with natural hair worn in a pulled-back afro style.

Emmalie El Fadli and Hansof Waller

The frequent collaborators discuss the importance of uplifting queer joy and family in their latest short film. 

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Music Toggle

REONA, a Japanese performer in silver tap dancing shoes and a desconstructed costume, dances on a wooden platform. Her hunched shadow is cast on an abstract projection at the back of the stage.

REONA by C. Spencer Yeh

Creating improvisational sound from environments, objects, movement, and collaboration. 

A portrait of Missy Mazzoli in a yellow-green jacket standing against a curtain.

Missy Mazzoli by George Saunders

The composer of Lincoln in the Bardo, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera this fall, speaks with the author of the novel she adapted about collaborations, the afterlife, and how she became a death doula.

On a verdant city street, the four band members face the camera through the glass of a bus stop in the background. In the foreground, a worker carrying a ladder steps into the shot and looks toward them.

YHWH Nailgun by Naomi Falk

The experimental rock band on the evolution of their sound and keeping their vision open for interpretation. 

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Reyna Tropical by M. Quechol

Ancestral tradition, queerness, and radical joy in the latest album by the duo Helado Tropical. 

On an industrial rooftop in Brooklyn with an "FDNY Access" sign, Florence Road is set up for a show. The band is comprised of four Irish women in their early 20s, all dressed in black with a sun flare behind them.

Florence Road by Tadhg Hoey

The up-and-coming Irish band pauses between tour stops to reflect on their music-making process. 

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Theater & Performance Toggle

Two performers in white nunnery garb toy with suspicious-looking IV bags, one of which is filled with a green and brown soupy substance.

Melanie Maria Goodreaux by Bruce Shannon Morrow

A darkly comic love story stretches from crawfish dinners in New Orleans to marital friskiness in Purgatory. 

On a naturalistic stage set that depicts a rustic, affluent dining room, a Gen X blond mom with glasses goes on her Apple laptop.

Anne Washburn by Eve Bromberg

A new play confronts conspiracy theories and radicalization within families and neighborhood communities. 

A photo from backstage of a small, purple-lit club stage and standing audience. The setup onstage involves two tables with computer equipment operated by Team Rolfes; in the center, a hyperpop artist with long braids and motion capture straps sings into a microphone.

Team Rolfes by Naomi Falk

The brothers utilize virtual reality, motion capture, and digital animation to create live stories with musical guests.  

Two bedroom sets outlined in light face in opposite directions. The left set is white with a green curtain, poster, minifridge, and man in socks sitting in the corner; the right bedroom is pink, covered in anime posters and plushies, with a bundled-up performer on the bed.

Else Went and Emma Rosa Went by Annie Rasiel

The playwright and director bring queer intimacy to a story about involuntary celibates and internet isolation. 

A wide shot of two Latina girls in a dress parlor with a checkered floor. The girl on the right is dressed casually and sitting in front of a crate; on the other side of a rack of poofy dresses, the other girl tries on a purple ballgown.

PhanÃĐsia Pharel by Eric Marlin 

A group of teen girls in Miami attempt to solve the mystery of their friend's disappearance from her quinceaÃąera.  

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Dance Toggle

In a white performance space with folding chairs and a wooden stage floor, the five Pageant founders pose with equipment: a blue ladder, handheld lights, cables, and stacked speakers.

Pageant by Amit Noy

The collaborators reflect on supporting a community of artists and learning from a range of processes in their Brooklyn space. 

In a spotlight against an industrial wall, two bearded and red-lipsticked performers pose facing forward. They are topless with sheer black pantyhose and high-heeled shoes.

Samir Kennedy by Amit Noy

Cabaret entertainment and formal experimentation come together in visceral performances. 

A grainy black-and-white photograph of a child standing at the top of a metal tower with a woman dancing beneath.

Madeline Hollander by Karla Kelsey

A performative engagement with Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. 

At the front of a tree-lined field dotted with V-shaped wooden fence sculptures, a tanned performer with a bleached buzzcut and red tulle costume speaks into a microphone. Some audience members are scattered behind.

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte by Darvejon Jones

The creation of movement as a collective and the inclusion of entire communities in the artmaking process.

A black-and-white photo of two dancers dressed in black doing a semi-backbend embrace. They are hemmed in by an audience in a small apartment space.

Anna ThÃĐrÃĻse Witenberg by David Levine

The visceral impact of fashion silhouettes and close-up shots in balletic duets. 

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Architecture Toggle

A black-and-white cover with a drawing next to capitalized text.

James Wines by Devang Arvind Shah and Dong-Ping Wong

Community and rebellion are evergreen. 

The elevation view of Colectivo C733’s market in Matamoros, Mexico, from the brick patio outside. The market is enclosed by a red brick wall that supports a metal armature holding a metal and brick trapezoidal forms that create the market’s roof. A man in a reflective safety vest walks toward the open entrance past dry planted trees in the patio.

Gabriela Carrillo by Fernanda Canales

Grounded in collaboration and emotion, the architect’s projects have transformed public spaces across Mexico and how her field responds to communities in times of crisis.

The artist, a Black woman with short hair wearing printed sneakers and a white sweat suit, smiles, sitting in a chair in her studio with one foot up on a stool. In the background, maps, posters, and other printouts are pinned to the wall.

An Oral History with Amanda Williams by Lauren Halsey

Amanda Williams, a visual artist and trained architect, discusses the ability to formulate architecture whose potential is both real and imagined with her mentee, Lauren Halsey. 

Footage of an industrial flare in Death Alley, filmed by RISE St. James, is superimposed over a monument of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Forensic Architecture) ÂĐ FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE, 2021

Eyal Weizman by Rhoda Feng

The originator of Forensic Architecture discusses a methodology of "investigative aesthetics" for revealing human rights abuses as manifested in built environments.

A large concrete circle in a grassy field titled, ”Sometimes the Clouds Come Back this Way,“ by Nancy Nowacek.

Nancy Nowacek by Louis Bury

A multidisciplinary artist talks about collaborative work.

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RETROSPECTIVES

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