In a nine-part comic series, Ivan Ascher explores the university, the pandemic, and philosophy.
“Corrupting the Youth”: Episode 1
Arts & Culture
t-swift is a dialectic
Becky Zhang follows the evolution of Taylor Swift's aesthetic with the release of her latest album "folklore."
It’s Over
Francey Russell inspects Amy Seimetz's "She Dies Tomorrow," hailed as the first COVID film.
Smashing Statues, Building Community
Erin L. Thompson thinks about what it means to record the process of destroying art in Aaron Tugendhaft's "The Idols of ISIS."
Lana Del Rey, Fragile Feminism, and White Fragility in a Moment of Black Lives Matter
Christine Capetola dissects Lana Del Rey's "fragile feminism" and the history behind her social media tirade.
Hamilton is America’s Monumental Epic. That’s a Good Thing.
Pasquale Toscano interrogates the epic lineage of the notable release of Lin-Manuel Miranda's famed musical.
Photographing a Bruise: Catherine Opie’s “Rhetorical Landscapes” at the Regen Projects
Jonathan Alexander looks at bruises and swamps Catherine Opie’s “Rhetorical Landscapes.”
Contemporary Female Artists at the First Virtual Frieze Art Fair
Catherine Corman features a few prominent artists in the first ever virtual Frieze Art Fair, which ran May 8 through 15, 2020.
What Dickens Would Have Thought About Improv Comedy
Emily Anne Foster relates Middleditch & Schwartz's improv special to the wacky pantheon of Dickens characters.
Fontana after the Ruins: A Conversation with Luca Massimo Barbero
Alexandre Saden talks with curator Luca Massimo Barbero about the exhibition "Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space" at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles.
