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Video: Soft Animals by Renee Zhan

In this wildly imaginative surrealistic narrative, two ex-lovers cross paths at a train station.

September 9, 2023 · 4 Comments

Marilyn Monroe: Fragments

my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in a painting—ah life they
have cheated you 

August 19, 2023 · 12 Comments

Judith Sanders: The Sabine Woman

But history leaps from the bushes, grabs your throat.
Your sisters’ screams explode in your chest.
Thatch is burning, sacks slit, lentils spilled.

July 31, 2023 · 8 Comments

Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Street Art in Pittsburgh

Although Pittsburgh is home to a number of major museums and art galleries, the region’s streets often tempt residents to create their own art.

July 30, 2023 · 3 Comments

Video: The Agent

A C-list talent agent walks through the world all but invisible… until he enters a pay-to-play audition room.

July 29, 2023 · Leave a comment

Video: Wangechi Mutu | The Timeless, Ancient Language of Art

Using found materials and mesmerizing structures that unearth deep-rooted emotions, Wangechi Mutu’s visual creations celebrate our collective history and explore how art communicates into the future. From ancient rock carvings in the Sahel to her own chimeric abstractions, she shares…

July 23, 2023 · 4 Comments

Dawn Potter: A Small Celebration of Baron Wormser and Teresa Carson

Lived-Time, Art-Time, and Friendship

July 2, 2023 · 8 Comments

Video: Chinyanta Kabaso | The Dazzling Diversity of African Dance

The dazzling diversity of African dance — in 14 moves

May 20, 2023 · 6 Comments

Octavio Paz: Motion

If you are the basket of oranges
I am the knife of the sun

May 19, 2023 · 9 Comments

Michael Simms: Orpheus in Hollywood

Michael Chabon hasn’t so much straddled genres as rejuvenated whatever he touches, making literary fiction more engaging and accessible and popular genres less cliched and formulaic.

May 6, 2023 · 20 Comments

Video: Faraway

The film follows the passing of seasons in the life of Omar Al Shakra, a young Arab man living in Montreal, after he’s cast aside by his family’s older generation following a difficult conversation about his homosexuality.

April 23, 2023 · 4 Comments

Video: “All the World’s a Stage” by William Shakespeare

Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.

April 16, 2023 · Leave a comment

Leonor Fini: Dreams of Women

“Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.”

April 2, 2023 · 2 Comments

Stuart Sheppard: The War Against Aesthetics in Contemporary Art

Should art speak, or do we need to speak for it?

April 2, 2023 · 20 Comments

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