Queer Korean-Chinese American painter and visual artist Eric Chan creates technically-proficient, symbolism-laden paintings that explore his intersecting third culture identities. A self-taught artist, Chan intermixes the personal, familial, and the...
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“There’s this kind of an unspoken language between some Native artists … in terms of setting our own definitions of Indigeneity and not having it be the defining throughline in all of our art … we kind of have our own little internal...
Late on a Thursday evening, Octopoulpe headlined a humble show at Mandragora, a beloved community bar in Oaxaca, Mexico. I had been prepared to leave after listening to just one song, but after the squid mask-wearing South Korea-born Frenchie...
From March 12 to 18, 300,000 domestic and international visitors poured into Downtown and East Austin again to mix and mingle, and, of course, eat Texas BBQ. It was the 40th year of SXSW and disruption was the name of the game. Programming around...
Josef Gatti, a Melbourne-based filmmaker and pioneering cinematographer, spent nearly a decade building the “trippy science concept album” of Phenomena, his feature documentary debut. Phenomena is structured as ten chapters, each exploring a...
At Sundance 2026, Indonesian director Wregas Bhanuteja premiered Levitating (Para Perasuk), a highly imaginative film about a fictional trance party community in Indonesia. The Indonesian title, Para Perasuk, translates to “the...
“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger. Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known for her convention-bucking embrace of the...
Monyee Chau, a self-described “queer artist” and “restaurant baby,” hails from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), in a diverse part of the city where they still have deep connections and feel profound...
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