Features
What Art Criticism Can Learn From Sports Writing
Sports coverage proposes a balm for overwrought critical prose, and sports psychology as a solution for painter’s block.
13 Ways of Looking at an Olympic Cauldron
An oddity to many, a problem to some, and an icon to few: Atlanta’s Olympic Cauldron, (fondly) revisited.
with photographs by Johnathon Kelso
LINSANITY
An artist processes the enduring impact and evolving mediatized identity of the NBA’s Jeremy Lin—in sports culture, and in his own artistic practice.
Utopia Today
The 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia leads London to try mapping the theoretical “nonplace” in history, and in real, urban space.
Michael Rakowitz:
A Desert Home Companion
In an effort to suture the communicative divide between Middle Eastern and American cultures, an artist nourishes discourse through the palate, and the tongue.
Chrysanthi Koumianaki
An artist’s existentialist account of Greek economics, via Paris May 1968.
Atlantis, GA
At the largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, the alien world of the ocean has corporate sponsors.
Drachmas
1970s Athens, a Jordanian family vacation, and an Arab TV production boom.
The School of Athens
A call for a departure from the trope of the Greek capital as “southern experiment” in creative sustainability.
Capacious Tapes
The perfect container for popular, secular, religious, and underground cultural archives—and DIY cultural production and distribution—the audiocassette is still the medium of record in Afghanistan (and should be, everywhere)