Elissa Washuta: “Living inside this empire is all that I will ever have.”

April 28, 2021
The essayist on her new book, White Magic, and turning obsession into research.

Emma Eisenberg: Holding Contradiction

February 21, 2020
The author of The Third Rainbow Girl on internalizing shame, creating healing, and scrambling gender in a place where “the earth loves you and also wants to kill you.”

Porochista Khakpour: Bodily Chaos

June 13, 2018
The author on her new memoir, SICK; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment.

A Battle in Images

September 1, 2015

Political posters and propaganda on view at LACMA shed light on a tumultuous period in Germany’s history, when art served as a catalyst for change.

Birds in Flight

September 15, 2014

In NEGROGOTHIC: A Manifesto, The Aesthetics of M. Lamar, the artist re-envisions historical narratives to break open the present.

Cristina Ibarra: Going Through Customs

June 16, 2014

The Chicana filmmaker on documenting a debutante ball in honor of George Washington’s birthday in Laredo, Texas, and adopting the Mexican-American border as her "muse.”

Death in the Opposite House

May 1, 2014

David Armstrong inaugurates Casa de Costa’s new East 61st Street location with an immersive mix of sculpture and photography.

Portraits Of Blackness

December 4, 2013

The general editor of the first major collection of black quotations on art and expression throughout African-American history.

Between You and Me

December 4, 2013

Can the art world embrace straight talk, or is it doomed to sound liked poorly translated French?