Features
New Frontiers
Current developments in London highlight the politics of “Creative Quarters.”
Port Authorities
Mere mention of the word “airport” may trigger certain emotional responses. Some may not be positive. Airports are the unpleasant part of the journey, the necessary evil. But what if airports become the destination?
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.
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.
Neither Queer nor There
From the archives—essayist Matt Morris contends that the burgeoning queer hip-hop movement provides a different context for articulating “queer.” It’s not just a theory anymore!
Huguette Caland: A Life Coming Into Focus
Once known only to few for her erotic topographies and obsessive line, an unsung heroine of Arab modernism enters the canon.
Tropical Hangover
Between reality and escapism, magic and engineering, there is Florida, where the swamp is an unlikely breeding ground for global cultural capital and investment.
Las Vegas: Still Learning?
As the entertainment capital struggles to pioneer a new arts & culture landscape, the shape of the “future city” begins to take form—and it looks like a “strip.”
Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum
Europe’s museums turn to institutional rebrands and infusions of contemporary art to update their imperial-era collections —but are these efforts enough?