Author Madeleine Watts in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about the uneasy timeliness of her new novel Elegy, Southwest, in which a young married couple on a road trip through the American southwest grapples with the breakdown of their relationship in the shadow of environmental collapse
A candid and expansive talk between Logan Royce Beitmen and Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle of NYC’s CANADA Gallery, where she plays a key role in shaping the gallery’s program & strategic direction
An interview with Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, a female break dance pioneer who co-founded Full Circle Productions, NYC's only nonprofit Hip hop dance theater company, with her husband Kwikstep
Musicians Asa Horvitz & Carmen Quill discuss GHOST, a multi-format piece of art that is part experimental opera, part neo-Medieval reverie, & part avant-pop song cycle, now presented as a streamlined album of standout recordings
A conversation with Joshua Caleb Weibley & composer Jordan Dykstra about their installation Projection 010: Game Transfer Phenomena, now up at NYC's Chart Gallery through February 15
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
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”
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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
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
Isabelle Sakelaris in conversation with poet JoAnna Novak about her latest collection, DOMESTIREXIA
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
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
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
Author Catriona Shine talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel Habitat
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 talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
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
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
