Sight and Insight: “Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler”
An exhibition of Paulina Peavy’s work explores the artist’s fascination with spiritualism and alien consciousness....

Sight and Insight: “Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler”
An exhibition of Paulina Peavy’s work explores the artist’s fascination with spiritualism and alien consciousness....
Picturing the Public Interest
Alex Weintraub considers “Is It Ours?,” Martha Buskirk’s new book on art and copyright....
Against Mug Shots
How can artists create images that counter the carceral state?...
Signs of Urban Life: On “The 99% Invisible City” and “The City Beneath”
Two books decipher the hidden meanings behind urban design, from sewage systems to graffiti art....
The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles
Two very different new books on the project of historic preservation in Los Angeles....
Darkness on the Edge of Town
A photo collection catalogs the use and abuse of American land....
Remembering Peter Nicholls
Looking back at the career of the environmentally-minded Aotearoa New Zealand sculptor....
Metabolizing the Future
In a country ruined by World War, a generation of Japanese visionaries in literature and architecture imagined ways to survive global apocalypse....
The Indirect Acts of History
Michael Osman reviews "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" by Keller Easterling....
Comfort and Transience
Micah Cash’s “Waffle House Vistas” blends nostalgia with a kind of eerie dystopianism....
Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin
The legendary Russian performance artist on the theory and politics of clowning....
The Three Passions of Alexander Petrosyan
Olga Ware speaks to photographer Alexander Petrosyan about his three passions: his art form, St. Petersburg, and people....