“The power of Minhwa lies ultimately in the fact that it participates in a universal code — a common denominator for all living human beings, a core of desires and beliefs that is tied to basic human activities … “
“The power of Minhwa lies ultimately in the fact that it participates in a universal code — a common denominator for all living human beings, a core of desires and beliefs that is tied to basic human activities … “
“The photos not only capture the accidental Mondrian-like effect of relegation of the maintenance of building envelopes to individual tenants, they also reveal a Dorian-Gray’s-like picture of the inefficiencies of neo-liberalism and the cumulative effects of decades of rising economic inequality and shirking of collective investment in an important component of the infrastructure that enables and sustains us.”
Thoughts on light, color, painting, time passing, and the meaning of words from Robert Beck.
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.
These paintings symbolise the interconnectedness of all things, and that we live in a unified universe.
“…a new aesthetic, one of protest, full of popular longings, and that lives in the full multitude of rebellion, is strong and great and captures us with the emotion of battle — this is life.”
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.
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.
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.