Feature
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.
Cast Iron
An artist almost drowns, then reflects on Black Buoyancy, Hemingway, and Mami Wata.
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)
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
In Moscow’s Gorky Park, a museum provides infrastructure for national social change; here, its director Anton Belov and chief curator Kate Fowle discuss programming for accessibility and integrity.
Give Me the Colors . . . and the Country
On the troubling alliance between a mayor-turned- prime minister in Tirana, the artist-godfathers of relational aesthetics, and the greatest spin doctors in European politics.
Achieving Blankness
Notes from the edge of the Atlanta Airport
with photography by Johnathon Kelso