Review
Flipper, Cousteau, and Homo aquaticus
The broadcast of Flipper and Jacques Cousteau’s documentaries introduced audiences to a seemingly alien world. But these popular shows sought...
The Population Bomb in the Rearview Mirror
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will...
Series Collapsed by MPA
Infinity had to start somewhere. ∞, also known as the lemniscate, the ouroboros, or the “lazy eight”—often a line with...
Erasing Pronouns: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Ottilia
The women say that of her song nothing is to be heard but a continuous O. That is why this...
The Story of Art Without Men By Katy Hessel
Katy Hessel is seizing the moment. She is in the right time and place to elevate the power and presence...
Insisting on Resisting : Counterpublic 2023
St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Emblem of Manifest Destiny....
Amalia Amaki/Liz Hampton
When the Feminist Women’s Health Center expanded, a library of books and video tapes on women’s health issues was made...
Of Oysters, Roaches, and New Pessimism in Hong Kong
It’s all very Videodrome. That body horror manifests in phone-breath-bed 3 (2023), a sculpture presented in its own small room. A silicone face emerges out of a Perspex panel, where, lower down, a silicone slab forms a womblike concave depression. The panel hovers over the form of a hospital bed with the support of gray plastic piping, whose mattress is a screen-skin painting with creased dermal folds framing silicone protrusions that swell from the flatness.
Clouds, Power, and Ornament: Roving Central Asia
Clouds, Power, and Ornament: Roving Central Asia is organized in two parts, starting with Clouds and Power, curated by Slavs...