I am a filmmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and copy editor.
It also reminds me that regardless of thoughtful preparations there is often a point – not always visible – that once passed steals your ability to shape the future, leaving you without alternative, a passenger on the deaf and indifferent winds of fate.
This playlist collects is for the skeletons in our closet, the departed longing for a glimpse of the living world, the werewolves, and zombies, and vampires. Hot tunes to warm their rattling chains and naked bones, and some cool tunes to join them in their blue moods.
Of course, because some people are more equal than others, it’s important to have some sort of system in place so people know their place.
“Through Horna’s pictures, we have access to her inner world, imagination, spiritual beliefs and practices as well as those of the artists she worked so closely with.” A fascinating article about Kati Horna by art historian Olivia Garro.
Ellen Harvey’s paintings from the New York Beautification Project become a testament to the strange beauty of the ephemeral, even in the way everything decays or gets covered over with time, becoming a part of the shifting layers of history, of the life of the city.
We are grateful to share a selection of stories from the project.
Morgan Totah of Handmade Palestine interviews Palestinian artist Rand Dabboor.
“However, there is a need to reappraise Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger because in the span of each panel, Ormes’ voice rises to address how events such as McCarthyism and the murder of Emmett Till affected Black Americans.”
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
October ramblings.
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
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