The Material Remains of Memory

All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.

Judy Chicago’s Corporate Feminism

I came to Herstory hoping to see depth, guts, the ambition and potency of “The Dinner Party” and instead found nothing but surface.

Required Reading

This week, the oldest plant-based red paint, the stories of queer Palestinians in Gaza, why women’s clothes don’t have pockets, and more.

The Painter Mexico City Lost Too Soon

Abraham Ángel embodied a new type of homegrown Mexican artist who rejected past European traditions in favor of local influences like arte popular. 

The Democratic Power of the Risograph

The risograph’s handmade aesthetic has become associated with posters, broadsheets, zines, and pamphlets, and has been embraced by small publishers.