How a Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart
Dance writer and historian Alastair Macaulay wrote on his Instagram “Jason Farago’s “New York Times” essay on Jasper Johns is sensationally good criticism: an ideal meeting of rich sensibility and keen scrutiny. And in today’s online edition it’s an ideal meeting of written criticism with highly sophisticated online design – the kind of venture that…
Read MoreThomas Jackson
Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York City working in book publishing, then as an editor and writer at Forbes Life magazine. An interest in photography books eventually led…
Read MorePhoebe Scott
Phoebe Scott is a figurative sculptor who is currently an MFA candidate at Indiana University. Having received her BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Phoebe Scott has assisted on projects with HandsHouse Studio. She studied drawing and painting at Florence University of the Arts in Italy, and studied under…
Read MoreIris Van Herpen
From Dazed: “You see?” Iris Van Herpen is peering out from behind a ghostly fish skeleton, which she has been dangling in front of her iMac. “It’s what we call a liquid fabric. It’s very refined, slightly translucent, and it’s as soft as silk,” she says, fanning its phosphorescent scales with her thumb so that they pucker…
Read MoreImaginary Beings
From the Financial Times: A regular contributor to The New Yorker and Time, among other publications, Johanna Goodman plays with a familiar composition: placing people with tiny faces and feet, and huge voluminous bodies often made from found imagery, in a dramatic setting. The works resemble Victorian fashion plates transplanted to an alternative universe. “I love…
Read MoreBaseball Card Vandals
Beau and Bryan Abbott, two brothers born in the 1980’s in a town called Springfield, spent their entire childhood obsessing over baseball cards. For well over a decade, every last dime of their allowance money went to funding their beloved collections. But as anyone who collected cards in the 80’s and 90’s knows, roughly 99.9%…
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