June ramblings. It’s the Magpies’ Manifesto!
Letter From the Editor, June, 2024: Magpies’ Manifesto
Peter Ydeen: Commuter Motions
Commuter Motions is a photographic series that attempts to frame the intangible spirit of our urban environment through the capture of a commute.
Late Bloomer: the Art of Mary Granville Delany
Mary Granville Delany Invented The Art Of Mixed Media Collage At Age 71.
A Strange and Beautiful World: An Interview with Cristina Vergano
We were grateful to have the chance to explore the mysterious and beautiful world of Cristina Vergano.
Grandma and Grandpa’s House
“When we got up the nerve to crack the door open, we were immediately met with the smell of air that hadn’t been smelled in a long time: a mix of dust, musk, and cedar — a whiff that gave a sense, even to a kid, of past lives and an odor that we didn’t experience in the city, where every space seemed to be in constant use and never remained closed off for long.”
American Mythologies: The Affrontery
This kind of hunger for hate and this desperate thirst for indignation leaves people vulnerable, and they’ll devour whatever they are sold, they’ll order everything on the menu.
L’opéra-Mouffe by Agnes Varda
The film is like a poem of a dream, composed in movements, and alternating between scenes of blissful young lovers naked in bed, surreal and frightening images that serve as worrying metaphors for pregnancy, and documentary footage of people on the Rue Mouffetard. In 17 minutes the film covers the cycle of life — childhood, youth, old age, infirmity, death — but in not in any logical order, rather in the bewildering way that life moves or that we move through life.
Blossom Drunk: Spring Poems from Basho
Some thoughts on Basho’s spring poems, writings, and journeys, from Arthur Davis.
The Excellence of Edna Lewis
Edna Lewis’ incredible book The Taste of Country Cooking is not just a cookbook, this work functions both as instructional material and memoir, using recipes to tell the story of a year in the lives of people living in Freetown, the self-sustaining agricultural community in rural Virginia where Lewis grew up.
May Issue, 2024
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.
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