circulation
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.
Zipporah Camille Thompson: Black Cloud Prism
USB-C
Supernumerary
In August 2017, I was a passenger—a “supernumerary,” in shipping lingo—aboard a cargo ship that sailed the North Sea’s perimeter before crossing the Atlantic Ocean: Le Havre to Antwerp to Rotterdam to Bremerhaven and over Scotland to Charleston, South Carolina. These photographs and notes document the journey.
Gender and Artistic Practice in the Ice Age
Keeper of antiquities and curator of the blockbuster 2013 exhibition “Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind,” Jill Cook explains the idea of spiritual landscapes, the surreal continuity between ancient and modern artistic practice, and gender equality in the Paleolithic.
Open Architecture
Captives
I went back to Charleston, SC, for a wedding recently, and of all the port cities I have visited, lived in, or loved, Charleston is the worst.
Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams
Jane Dickson and Times Square
Will Corwin interviews Jane Dickson about the late 70s and 80s punk art scene, Colab, the first electronic billboard, and New Year’s Eve in NYC.