Required Reading

This week, arts orgs and the war for talent, importance of house museums, the 125 most borrowed books in Brooklyn, the history of listicles, and more.

Whose Mother Is Nature Anyway?

Contemporary society in the United States normalizes the idea of the exhausted mother, so why wouldn’t mother nature be equally exhausted?

James Siena’s Radical Abstraction

The pleasure of Siena’s art arises from the tension between the overall image or the changing visual field and the individual units.

When Does Representation Stop Mattering? 

After a decade of working across different nonprofits, all too often I saw countless projects and frameworks deteriorate due to a lack of radical imagination.