When I enter the shared studio space of Argentinian artist Hernan Vargas — who presently works out of Casa de Todas Partes, a collaborative venue in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico — I am immediately greeted by large sculptural ceramic objects...
A multi-platform multimedia project, Future Landscapes approaches climate change in a novel way. At its centerpiece is a documentary short film entitled Invisible Landscapes — which visits sites of energy extraction, agriculture, and...
Alaya Dannu is not your average dreamer. With a nearly life-long practice rooted deeply in ancestral dreaming, the transdisciplinary Mesa, Arizona-based artist regularly acquires new knowledge, skills, and insights in her dreams that shape her...
Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, declared on Oct. 7 — after Hamas operatives infiltrated Israel and killed an estimated 1,200 people and took over 200 hostage — has provoked earth-shattering headlines emerging on a near-daily basis...
Created by Milisuthando Bongela, Milisuthando (2023) is the powerful documentary feature film which bears the Indigenous South African creator’s name. The appropriately hyper-personal work features often heartwrenching and always candid...
Upon first blush, one might pigeonhole Memphis-based artist Ashely Santinac, aka Ash León, as a rapper — but while they do rap, they find the label to be far too limiting. They are a self-described “interplanetary nonbinary...
The exhibition Songs for Ritual and Remembrance is filled with music. Installation view, Songs for Ritual and Remembrance, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. (Credit: Emily Pothast) Upon entering the Arthur Ross Gallery at the...
INHERITANCE: a complex word that encompasses a vast array of associations, feelings, memories, thoughts, cultures, and ways of being in the world. With his debut self-titled record of the same name, released on AKP Recordings, Palestinian-American...