An interview with JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, a muralist, painter, & street artist who lives & works in Brooklyn & who specializes in a unique combination of American quilt-making & folk art traditions with a street art aesthetic
US vs Us at HU! Gallery
HU! Gallery in Brussels is currently showing US vs Us, a group exhibition featuring eight artists with works focusing on the divided, polarized, & fractured status of the post-election “disunited States of America”
HIGHLIGHTS of 2024
Check out our recap of 2024’s standout coverage
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Talia Lavin
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews author & journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, an investigation of the Christian Right’s ascent over the last half-century & the grim vision evangelicals are now attempting to enforce in the United States
VLM'S VESTAL VIRGIN VENGEANCE
Experimental filmmaker & multimedia artist VLM discusses “Vestal Virgin Vengeance,” a capsule collection of new video work & photographic prints inspired by the Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome, & the contentious state of women's healthcare in Texas
JoAnna Novak on DOMESTIREXIA
Isabelle Sakelaris in conversation with poet JoAnna Novak about her latest collection, DOMESTIREXIA
Censored? Shadowbanned? Elizabeth Larison of the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP Discusses How to Fight Back
Elizabeth Larison, Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, talks in-depth with Logan Royce Beitmen about leading initiatives in advising & educating artists on how to address the presentation of controversial works
The vital restlessness of MARGARET ROSS
A conversation with poet Margaret Ross about her recent collection, Saturday
DANIELLE SEEWALKER on her cancelled residency over her pro-Palestine activism & the resulting ACLU lawsuit
Artist Danielle SeeWalker talks about her cancelled residency in Vail, Colorado due to her pro-Palestine activism, and the lawsuit against Vail the ACLU has filed on her behalf
From the Frontlines of Gaza to the Runways of New York: An interview with MERHAN KELLER
Activist and model Merhan Keller is an outspoken Palestinian rights advocate. In this interview, she discusses her aid work with the Egyptian Red Crescent & how her viewpoints have negatively impacted her career, & she delves into what it means to live a committed life of direct action
Catriona Shine discusses the shifting architectures of HABITAT
Author Catriona Shine talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel Habitat
An interview with EDUARDO VILARO, Artistic Director and CEO, Ballet Hispánico
Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director and CEO, Ballet Hispánico, talks with Catherine Tharin about running the largest Latino cultural organization in the United States, which supports three main programs: the Company, School of Dance, and Community Arts Partnerships.
Molly McGhee on JONATHAN ABERNATHY YOU ARE KIND
Molly McGhee talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
Jeff VanderMeer's ABSOLUTION
Jeff VanderMeer explores the failure of language, climate change, the fallibility of human institutions, ecstatic visions, and much more in this extensive interview about his new book, Absolution, the fourth installment from his celebrated Southern Reach series
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Alex E. Chávez
Alex E. Chávez discusses his debut album, Sonorous Present, an immersive poetic & musical passage with collaborations by Queztal Flores, Aloe Blacc, Martha Gonzalez, poet Roger Reeves, Ramón Gutierrez, & Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso
Ledia Xhoga discusses MISINTERPRETATION
Author Ledia Xhoga talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel, Misinterpretation
Didi Jackson's MY INFINITY
Poet Didi Jackson talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint
Sequins and Bunions: A Conversation With POL MORTON
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews Pol Morton about their solo show Get Well at NYC's Olympia Gallery and the ways their non-binary identity, along with their psychological and physical issues, are expressed with humor and beauty
Exploring the underrated sorrows of rejection with TONY TULATHIMUTTE
Author Tony Tulathimutte talks with Nirica Srinivasan about the mosaic of interconnected short stories focused on the "underrated sorrows of rejection" in his new collection, Rejection
Sarah Ghazal Ali discusses THEOPHANIES
Sarah Ghazal Ali in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her vivid debut poetry collection, Theophanies