“The flyer project is about confusion and uncertainty. I thought it might resonate with others as something open and vulnerable that doesn’t really prescribe any beliefs or answers.”
Pat Perry: Mentor Wanted
My Heart is in the Making of the Work: An Interview with Neal Rantoul
“My heart is in the making of the work, in every frame shot, in every failed and successful image made over now a long career.” An Interview With Neal Rantoul
The Strangely Familiar Art of Celia Reisman
I want my paintings to be worlds unto themselves, where you feel you are experiencing something for the first time even though it is familiar.” – Celia Reisman
Stella Bowen Self Portrait, an Ekphrastic Poem
Mike Ladd’s ekphrastic poem in response to Bowen’s courageous self-portrait.
October Issue, 2025
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, October, 2025: Build, Therefore, Your Own World
October ramblings.
Spotted Lanternfly: Glitter Beneath the Rot
In the late 1980s, a local study claimed that, “in Baltimore, there is rot beneath the glitter.” Through her comics, Amy aims to show that there is also glitter beneath the rot.
A Weird and Joyful World: An Interview With Calef Brown
“The humans, human-animals and animal-animals in my books are the deliverers of the spirit of my work, and its substance — character, humor, wordplay, story, color, and visual pleasure.” An interview with Calef Brown.
September, 2025
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.
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
“The wires of Dürer’s knots do, in a sense, chart the paths of entwined networks — of knowledge, commodities, cultural and material translation, repeating idealistically within a flourishing system.”
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