Required Reading

This week, digital colonialism, America’s favorite wines, tech layoffs, Brutalist Taco Bells, and do people still write thank-you notes?

What Does Solidarity by Artists Look Like? 

Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities portrays how Artists Call swiftly created a transnational network working toward a single purpose.

A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios in Austin, Dublin, Long Island City, and Los Angeles.

Expressionism Turned Inside Out

Kyung-Me’s disciplined focus on minute details is inseparable from a vast grotto of feelings that she has channeled and kept in check.

In a Bear Market, the NFT Scene Embraces Goblins

Goblins became a fitting identity for NFT enthusiasts, who are uncertain about their future, yet are still darkly proud of their fast-paced, albeit often conniving, subculture.

Paintings Born of LA’s Grit and Grime

Collaging debris culled during urban excursions, Michael Alvarez portrays the liminal spaces of his city, from freeway underpasses to public parks.

Can Humanity Forge a Path to Freedom?

The “Loophole of Retreat” symposium at the Venice Biennale demonstrated that the personal is not only political; it’s also where most of humanity lives.