#Art

WOMAN OF INTERESTPhotographer Melissa Kobe + Poet Sarah Suzor

Humanity's relationship to nature is a complicated one. Too often, people make the mistake of seeing themselves as masters, taming the earth inch by inch; in reality, the earth is quick to respond and fight back. Cracks in the sidewalk reveal grass gasping for breath, abandoned homes from the...

Ashley Prillaman

ONLY NOISEThe Art of Dissent

If you are paying attention to the political sector right now – and I’d be concerned yet impressed if you’ve managed to escape it – every day may feel like a battle. Those who have suffered depression will be uncomfortably familiar with this sentiment. The difference being: now we experience...

Madison Bloom

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WOMAN OF INTERESTIndira Cesarine of The Untitled Space

“There is a need to reweave our nation’s social fabric as it is being torn.” This is Linda Friedman Schmidt’s poignant appraisal of Trump’s America. Schmidt is one of 80 female visual artists taking part in UPRISE/ANGRY WOMEN, an exhibition at Tribeca’s The Untitled Space gallery this Tuesday, just...

Madison Bloom

PLAYING DETROITMic Write "blak/joi"

Mic Write's reputation as a renaissance man pales in comparison to the weight of his message and unconstrained fervor.

Jerilyn Jordan

ARTIST INTERVIEWMexico City Blondes

Mexico City Blondes are a musical duo from Santa Barbara, CA, that know how to place the packaged whipped cream with the homemade cherry pie, so to say, lovingly delicious. Or, put more succinctly, "Sort of marriage between the electronic and organic sounds," says Greg, one-half of the Blondes. The...

Sophie Saint Thomas

YEAR END LISTTop 10 Album Covers

Let's all just agree to agree that hip hop as a genre won the album cover contest this year, okay? Much of the new heavy metal out this year bore covers that ran the gambit between overstatedly woodsy to just plain inexplicable, and pop albums favored stark, angular glamor shots and occasionally...

Carena Liptak