Suchitra Mattai’s “Memory, History, Forgetting (After Paul Ricœur)” serves as a conceptual centerpiece for her exhibit “Sweet Asylum,” which is now on display at K Contemporary in Denver, Colorado. The…
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I waited for an hour to see Black Panther, wondering why there was no black people to the front policy. My friend beside me was complaining that no black person…
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At home it’s always safe. —Zbigniew Herbert For several months in 2010 I suffered from anxiety induced nausea while riding the subway. It was a peculiar kind of subterranean panic.…
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Ascending to a height of 630-feet, the iconic Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis towers above the western bank of the Mississippi River. From a half-mile away, visitors stand on…
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Stephanie Sauer, there is no grammar Part of having privilege is not having to react to historical traumas as they erupt, ever inconveniently, in the body. I did not want…
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ArtCultureInterviewLiteratureSOMETHING THAT THRIVES, MOVES, AND GROWS: INTERVIEW OF PLAYWRIGHT JOSHUA YOUNG BY EDITOR TYLER CRUMRINE (& VICE VERSA)
Welcome to the third and final part in our interview series on Psalms for the Wreckage, a trilogy of scripts in verse by poet and playwright Joshua Young. So far…
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In her book, Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit notes the influence that the Czech rock band, The Plastic Peoples of the Universe, had on the liberation movement in the…
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Abandon Me / Melissa Febos / Bloomsbury / 2017 dark electric turquoise, deep red, acid yellow, lavender pink, inky bluish-black __________ Darling Days / io Tillet Wright / Harper Collins…
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ArtCultureFeaturedInterviewLiteratureWhat Else Can Be Made From Words: Interview of Editor J.A. Tyler on Playwright Joshua Young
Welcome back to this three-part interview series on the creation of Psalms for the Wreckage, a trilogy of scripts in verse by poet and playwright Joshua Young. In this second…
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A book/novel/text has always occupied space and the senses for me in diverse and complex ways, allowing for new ways of seeing, and understanding the world. With Tia Blassingame, the…
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Get Out written and directed by Jordan Peele I can’t stop thinking about the perfection of one of Peele’s most devastating details. After the car accident, Rose refuses the policeman…
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ArtCultureURBAN AUGMENTATIONS: THE POLITICS OF NON-AESTHETIC ADDITIVES IN THE WORK OF SHANTELL MARTIN
Towering above the sidewalk of Champa Street in the downtown Denver are three black-and-white, multi-story billboards that read: “WHO ARE YOU,” “YOU ARE YOU,” and “ARE YOU YOU” respectively. The…
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Adam Milner, Politicians Waving, Men Thinking, 2017 In printing, a “full bleed” refers to an image printed across an entire page, up to and beyond the edge of the paper.…
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Edgar Arceneaux, A Time to Break Silence, 2013, photo credit: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects What purpose does monumental art hold today – whether on the street or in a…
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