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.
January Issue, 2025
Korean Folk Painting: Minhwa
“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 … “
Dorothea Lange and the Japanese-American Internment
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006
Black and White
Thoughts on light, color, painting, time passing, and the meaning of words from Robert Beck.
Composite Artwork: Communicating Greater Reality?
These paintings symbolise the interconnectedness of all things, and that we live in a unified universe.
Leopoldo Méndez: An Aesthetic of Protest
“…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.”
Samuel Oladele’s Bordering Portraits
“When we view the pictures, we are drawn into a region of borders, boundaries, and limits. When asked about this idea behind his photography, Oladele calls it the unique African way of looking.”
November 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.
Anchor Holding
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.
Kati Horna: photographing the hidden, occult, and unseen layers of reality
“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.
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