“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.
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.
“In this place, there is one main road, called Main Road. There are no sidewalks and the drivers on Main Road are fast, having navigated its bends and dips for a lifetime.” – A collection of Leah Frances’ beautiful photographs and reflections on her stay in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland.
There’s something of the fever dream in Gerald Slota’s videos. They hit you with their strange dream logic, a barrage of images, movement, songs. But like most dreams, they linger in your memory. We were grateful for a chance to ask Gerald Slota a few questions about his videos.
An interview with remarkable photographer Faraz Ravi.
“I deciphered the occasional splash of graffiti: alongside youthful declarations of love and football were vague revolutionary slogans: “Freedom is a Right”, “Liberty”, and “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
“Ellen Wallenstein found solace and strength in her art, continuing to create cyanotypes—ethereal blue shadow-grams on cloth—each sunny day,”
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