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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Flash animation to make a frenzied bid for utopia, sex, freedom, and jazz
Samson Young:
Songs For Disaster Relief
Do they know it’s Christmas? Yes, they do. Charity jingles chart the rise of neoliberalism at the Hong Kong pavilion in Venice.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
“Echo Profiles,” “ear witnesses,” and audio forensics inform the practice of an artist and “private eye” working at the intersection of sound and politics.
Luftmensch
The New York Public Library’s “Curator of Public Curiosity” on Werner Herzog, inherited trauma, and the art of the question.
The Octavia E. Butler Collection
An author’s annotations, motivations, and meditations, from the collection of The Huntington Library.
Men in High Castles
When adapting science fiction to the screen, where does the truth go?
Eye Candy Is Dandy
From the archives—the linkage between Rashaad Newsome’s “Heraldry” series, and a new-millennial Black dandyism as embodied by A$AP Mob.
We’re in for Better Wetter
The founder of WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing remembers collaborations with young artists and calling a gondola garage in Venice home.
Poolside Chat
An LA architect and a Palm Springs architectural curator discuss liberated design and pastel color palettes in the American West.