Reviews
Eschatology on the Internet: The Nocilla Trilogy
In 2010 scientists from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, conducted an experiment with oat flakes, arranged to mimic the cities...
Krista Clark: Base Line of Appraisal
In Base Line of Appraisal, Krista Clark’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the artist interrogates...
Lucia Berlin: Evening in Paradise and Welcome Home
Schoolteacher, dressmaker, cleaning woman, ER clerk, switchboard operator, oral historian: these were a few of the jobs that occupied Lucia...
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt defines the concept of iconoclasm as “the intentional damage to and destruction of culturally...
Chernobyl
“What is the cost of lies?” HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl opens with this dark rumination of dying Soviet chemist Valery Legasav’s....
Avantika Bawa: APEX and Coliseum
Avantika Bawa’s APEX and Coliseum examine a Portland, OR landmark that stirs halcyon memories among several generations of architecture and...
Jennifer Wen Ma: Cry Joy Park—Gardens of Dark and Light
The state of blessedness has been long mythologized as a garden, an enclosure that protects verdure and growth. Not to...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
In a political landscape where truth can feel fluid at best and arbitrary at worst, it seems apt that archival...
Rachel Rampleman: Oh! You Pretty Things
On the day I visited Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, to see Rachel Rampleman’s mid-career survey, Oh! You Pretty...
Order & Chaos
In ancient times, when philosophy informed the sciences and our knowledge of the brain was speculative or mythological, the anatomical...