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.
June Issue, 2025
Alchemist’s Dream
“I hope this series will be a drop that makes a tiny ripple in people’s deep within, and take them to the wonderful journey of imagination.”
Conceptual Body Symbols in Kanayo Kester’s Portraiture Practice
“… juxtaposing members of a family from different generations touches something vulnerable and mnemonic about the relationship between humanity and Time.”
Aurora Reyes: writing by painting and painting by writing/Aurora Reyes: escribir pintando y pintar escribiendo
“Although Aurora was a leading figure in the fascinating artistic and political environment of her time, over the years her work, like that of many of her female artist colleagues, began to be made invisible and forgotten.”
Philadelpha Sketchbook: Personal Eucharist
“In person, there was a beauty to the impossibility of fitting all of its warm earthy columns and ornate weathered teal domes into your frame of vision at once.”
Why GOP Attempts to Sanitize History Will Fail
History doesn’t disappear when you shut down a website, threaten a museum’s funding, or remove museum exhibits. We carry the past within us.
Walking With Hiroshige
“Artist Cathy Brooks and I are on our way to Japan together, to walk into Hiroshige’s print.”
May 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.
Color, Memory, Place: An Interview With Jonathan Hooper
“Colour is the way that I seek to convey the total experience of a place — an experience that is only partly visual, but physical, emotional and built from memory as well.”
There are levels to this darkness: Two Poems
Two powerful poems by Gershwin Wanneburg. Difficult subjects, innovative forms.
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