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The Great Unknown and the Unknown Great: Rediscovering artist and political activist Chuzo Tamotsu

By Magpies on January 29, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The children are always ours

By Magpies on January 26, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

John Heartfield, photomontage as a political weapon

By Magpies on January 23, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

A Short Anti-Fascist Playlist

By Magpies on January 20, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

ANEW Artist’s Alliance Group Show

By Magpies on January 16, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

The Flickering Ghost: What Remains When the Projector Goes Dark?

By Magpies on January 13, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Pipeline in My Pocket. The Waiting Game is Over

By Magpies on December 28, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

“On a more personal level, the work is also about dignity. About whose inner life is considered worth depicting and whose is treated as background noise. If that unsettles viewers or makes them feel implicated rather than reassured, that’s intentional.”

Ignorance and Want

By Magpies on December 25, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

his boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom …

Ellen Harvey: Winter in the Summer House

By Magpies on December 21, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

“He loved nature and the Hudson Valley landscape so much — and I think we all need to be inspired by that or there will be no icebergs left to paint.”

The Emotional Shades of Ifeoluwapo’s Self-Portraits

By Magpies on December 17, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

“Ifeoluwapo applies this method because her work goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman in a world in which a woman has to conform to different roles within and outside the confines of what she calls home.”

Seeing

By Magpies on December 14, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

“It delved into photographs’ potential as a way to arrive at a photographic vision and a photographic philosophy of seeing.”

Flash Fiction: Peaches

By Magpies on December 10, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

“Wait,” he would tell us. “You’ll have to wait.”

Cloud Moving Wind: Basho’s Travels

By Magpies on December 7, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

I myself have been tempted for a long time by the cloud-moving wind — filled with a strong desire to wander.

Luna

By Magpies on December 5, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Beautiful essay and paintings from Robert Beck.

December Issue, 2025

By Magpies on December 2, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

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, December 2025. Alleyway thoughts.

By Magpies on December 1, 2025 • ( 2 Comments )

December alleyway ramblings.

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