Well over a century later, artist Alison Pebworth discovered this now long-forgotten disease and its ambiguous cures. She ...

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In mid-September of last year, as the light was streaking gold and the prairie air smelled of yellow, I had the pleasure of visiting Badlands ...

Alexandra Nordstrom is a Montréal-based cultural worker, curator, researcher, and art historian. Her work explores Indigenous knowledge systems, with… ...

Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who pulls apart our expectations of the photograph. Like a back door or a sprung leak, her work is both deceptive and expansive. It moves viewers ...

Chicago has never really recovered from Imagism. That local explosion—whose blast radius stretched from roughly the late 1940s through the mid-1970s—gave the city’s art scene the frisson that it long ...

What remains after writing—after the body that held the pen is gone? Carmen Neely’s remains (2026) hung alone on a white wall at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood of Mexico City.

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the distribution arm of New York’s Conceptual art scene. The print, designed by ...

Contemporary histories of Los Angeles seem to come in two main forms. The first, as exemplified by the indispensable work of the writer Mike Davis, deals with the existential problem of the city ...

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...