“Ellen Wallenstein found solace and strength in her art, continuing to create cyanotypes—ethereal blue shadow-grams on cloth—each sunny day,”
Blue Journey: Ellen Wallenstein
Nursery Rhyme DETOURS
Some works from Calef Brown’s suite of poems in which the first words or lines are from traditional nursery rhymes, then they go off in different directions. Beautifully illustrated by Leo Espinosa.
August 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.
Letter From the Editor, August 2024: Legible Only to Him That Searcheth Hearts
“The characters of man’s heart are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.”
Lunch Poems
“Imaginary one-to-one conversations with these ghosts, so to speak, allow me to invest in the possibility that within this divided nation, we might, one day, understand and respect each other.” Beautiful photographs from Leah Frances
Berenice Abbott: A “Fantastic Passion” for New York
The story of the remarkable Changing New York project in the context of Berenice Abbott’s career, by Bonnie Yochelson
Mind Your Manners: I Am Cuba
“As a form of resistance to the unblinking long take, Maria smashes her eyelids tightly shut, inhabiting her own privacy for the first time that night.”
Taigu Ryōkan: You Do Not Need Many Things
“Why are you acting like such a fool?”
I nod my head and don’t answer.
I could say something, but why?
Do you want to know what’s in my heart?
From the beginning of time: just this! just this!
An Interview With Bukka White
Bukka White has long been one of my favorite musicians, and I’m so happy to share this interview with Chris Strachwitz, from the Arhoolie archives, in which he talks about his life, his travels, his loves, his work, and his music.
The Alchemy of Grief: Moon Horse and Sky
“Pigments from a rock collected under her horse’s hooves are woven together with ochre earth pigments from France, the same ochres used by Van Gogh in his paintings of sunlit fields.” An interview with Santa Fe photographer and painter Stella Maria Baer by Alice Courtright
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