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New York Academy of Art and the Chubb Fellowship: Maud Madsen Shares her Prize

“We would sometimes have summer days when it was light outside until well after 11:00 pm,” Maud Madsen recalls about growing up in the northern reaches of Canada. After an unsatisfying stint at t June 16, 2021

Technology

Equity and the Ephemeral: A Conversation on Copyright with Jeffrey Gluck

In the transient world of street art, you are as likely to engage a defense attorney for criminal charges as you are a copyright lawyer for the infringement of rights. The evolving grey space holds t June 09, 2021

Features

Cristina BanBan: The Nuance of Memory

Think about the last time you cried. Oh, there are myriad reasons. Life can be upsetting,  life makes us feel nostalgic. We cry out of sadness and happiness, sometimes at the same time. We cry w June 07, 2021

Photography

Vasantha Yogananthan: A Myth of Two Souls

Upon first setting foot in India at the age of 25, French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan had already determined that he would devote the next decade to creating a comprehensive photographic interp June 02, 2021

Books

Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip-Hop

It’s amazing how much of our culture today was forged by the Bronx of the 1970s. Even the legend of Queens, LL COOL J, kicks off Born in the Bronx simply and directly: “I represent Queens by the May 26, 2021

Magazine

A Remembrance of S. Clay Wilson: Robert Williams on the Passing of an Underground Legend

It would certainly be fitting to offer the late artist, cartoonist, painter, writer and philosopher, S. Clay Wilson the greatest respect that is due to him, his station and his many, many supporters. May 21, 2021

Magazine

Preview: Summer 2021 with Danielle Mckinney, Cristina BanBan, Jenna Gribbon and MADSAKI

I doubt I’m the only one who has ever daydreamed their life into some sort of movie scene just before the ending credits are run. I think it’s natural for a “a dreamer,” a category in which I May 19, 2021

Design

The Surreal, Psychedelic Covers of Plexus

50watts never fails to dissapoint us with it's archive of illustration history. This latest collection of covers from the 60s and early 70s French publication Plexus features some wonderful surreal a  ; April 16, 2021

Magazine

The Villain Never Dies: Jason Jägel Honors MF Doom

When MF Doom released Operation: Doomsday in 1999 (and the split EP with MF Grimm on Brick Records), the record’s complex significance blew my mind. It demanded my scrutiny. I came to think of the March 02, 2021

Features

Spring 2021 Cover Story: Yusuke Hanai and a Most Happy Balance

Yasuki Hanai’s surfers, tipsy revelers and peaceful family of protestors, are neither victor nor victim. The surfer is one with the wave, the drinkers are propped up by gravity and each other, March 01, 2021

Magazine

Preview: Spring 2021 with Yusuke Hanai, Amoako Boafo, Ania Hobson, Hernan Bas, Ryan Travis Christian and more

"Shots of the scotch from out of square shot glasses // And he won't stop 'til he got the masses // And show 'em what they know not through flows of hot molasses.." —MF Doom, "All Caps," Madvi February 24, 2021

Installation

KAWS: WHAT PARTY @ Brooklyn Museum, New York

Synonymous as he is with Brooklyn, there is indeed something special about a hometown show for KAWS. The Jersey City-born artist has long called the borough home, and as a mentor to a group of fantas February 12, 2021
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