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.
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.
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006
“The photos not only capture the accidental Mondrian-like effect of relegation of the maintenance of building envelopes to individual tenants, they also reveal a Dorian-Gray’s-like picture of the inefficiencies of neo-liberalism and the cumulative effects of decades of rising economic inequality and shirking of collective investment in an important component of the infrastructure that enables and sustains us.”
Thoughts on light, color, painting, time passing, and the meaning of words from Robert Beck.
“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.”
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.
“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.
Ellen Harvey’s paintings from the New York Beautification Project become a testament to the strange beauty of the ephemeral, even in the way everything decays or gets covered over with time, becoming a part of the shifting layers of history, of the life of the city.
We are grateful to share a selection of stories from the project.
Morgan Totah of Handmade Palestine interviews Palestinian artist Rand Dabboor.
A poem from South African poet and journalist poet Gershwin Wanneburg.