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.
Hillary Brenhouse
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?
All The Selves We Have Been
November 1, 2013
Writing against the cultural aversion to aging and the aged, the feminist scholar explores our impulse to stop time.
My Friend Evelyn Einstein
October 1, 2013
The author reflects on her fifteen-year friendship with the physicist’s granddaughter—or perhaps his second illegitimate daughter.
