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In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was ...

Jade Meili Barget. Jade Meili Barget is a curator based between France and Norway. She is currently the Live Curator at ...

Tatum Howey is a writer and doctoral candidate based in Los Angeles whose work circles around questions of visuality and the ...

Not very long ago I read Toni Morrison’s Home. This, her tenth novel, chronicles the wayward journey of a young war veteran, Frank Money, making his way back home to Georgia. The novel reroutes the ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though his most renowned artworks are in the next gallery along with his clownish public ...

I come from the villages of Leulumoega, Siʻumu, Salelologa and Āpia in the western islands of the Sāmoan archipelago. My family also comes from Najafābād village outside Esfāhān (Ispāhān), and we have ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...

Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her attention to the environment. Her fieldwork has ...

Shelly Mars has always been interested in what we should not talk about, and as a result, she has for the past forty years faced constant criticism and pushback. Nonetheless, the multifaceted ...

While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University called IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America. We were ...