PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Where are my glasses? Airbrushed, out-of-focus, pop-art optical illusions, Austin Lee’s paintings begin as iPad sketches, before pixel is transferred to canvas as his digital doodles become more traditional works of art. Figurative yet abstract and reminiscent of early internet animation, his…
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Sweat Loaf Hallelujah is an exhibition organized by artist Jay Isaac that includes the work of Zoe Barcza, Robin Fry, Jasmine Reimer, and Object Catering. The title is a combination of two songs, “Sweat Loaf” by Butthole Surfers, and “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. “Sweat Loaf”…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 BY CRISTINE BRACHE You are a Hungarian Countess. Your name is forbidden to be spoken. You are a myth. You became the absolute ruler of a large part of Transylvania after your husband died in battle. He gave you a castle…
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PHOTOS BY YULIA ZINSHTEIN CLOTHING & STYLING BY ANNABELL P. LEE MODEL: LOW PATTERSON STYLING ASSISTANT: SAVANNAH MACIS Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky—painter-turned-designer Annabell P. Lee takes us down the rabbit hole to a world reminiscent of…
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Did you stay home and miss Frieze this year? We did. If you’re also one of those who missed out, you are in luck—photographer Anastasiia Chorna took to Randall’s Island this past week and has returned with documentation! Join us on her cinematic tour of the 2017 Frieze Art…
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And God created Transwoman. Guardian of God’s garden. Protector of its citizens and beacon of inexhaustible wisdom, though absolutely unaware of it, for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was located far in the midst of the vast haven and hence far from Temptation.
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 ESSAY BY BRAD PHILLIPS ILLUSTRATION BY PIERCE MCGARRY Philip Seymour Hoffman died 896 days ago as of today. Soon after his death I learned he was something I’m all too familiar with—an opiate addict. Philip Seymour Hoffman played out a classic…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 PHOTOS BY ALEIA MURAWSKI TEXT BY REBECCA STORM “Having a little snail sit in a cramped computer office, or move out of an apartment alone is a caricature of our everyday stress,” explains Aleia Murawski, “it helps me contemplate life…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 An Exclusive Interview with the Surrealist’s Granddaughter Christina Kenton and the Guderna Family by Darby Milbrath I first saw Ladislav Guderna’s surrealist paintings a few months ago online and was surprised that I’d never heard of him before. Guderna’s grand-daughter, Christina,…
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PHOTOS BY KRISTIE MULLER INTRODUCTION BY DARBY MILBRATH INTERVIEW BY ROSA AIELLO On first meeting Dylan Aiello, I am taken aback by how present he is. He is one of those people with dancing eyes, like he was struck by lightning and has electricity coursing through…
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Do you suffer from wry neck, also known as torticollis or turtleneck syndrome? Now you don’t have to give up your interconnected life as a networked global citizen for a healthy supple spine. Text and scroll for hours from a comfortable, supported position with this…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 INTERVIEW BY JESSICA KIRSH Rolling hills and winding roads, crowded forest and crashing waterfalls, sunrises and sunsets…we’ve seen it all. And Shara Hughes knows it. Her paintings act as heartfelt citations to art history, memory, and lived experience—assuming that all places…
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PHOTOS BY KRISTY BENJAMIN WORDS BY JANE PENNY In March I flew to Los Angeles with my friend and collaborator Bronwyn Ford to film a new music video for my band TOPS. We stayed at the house in Glendale where we shot the video. I…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 A DIALOGUE WITH THE MEMBERS OF BUFU PHOTOGRAPHY & TEXT BY JUNE CANEDO STYLING BY TESS HERBERT MODELS: Jazmin Jones , Tsige Tafesse, Suhyun Choi In the midst of a violent and divided year in the United States, I was moved…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 WRITTEN BY REBECCA STORM Some might call it good old-fashioned Southern cooking, some might call it post-war delights from pantry staples, and some might not take so much as a bite. Whatever your persuasion, it’s hard to resist the undeniable charm and…
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Today we are premiering a new song from Berlin-based crooner Better Person. Singing for the first time in his native Polish, Better Person AKA Adam Byczkowski, reaches new levels of emotive depth with “Zakochany Człowiek”(“A Man in Love”), his first release since his acclaimed EP It’s…
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INTERVIEW BY DARBY MILBRATH Mother Tongue at Clint Roenisch Gallery 9 March – 15 April, 2017 190 Saint Helens Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Mother Tongue is as if Claire Greenshaw pressed pause and all of a sudden these domestic moments and fragments of the mundane and…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Tilly Lawless is one of the many “faces of prostitution.” She is a queer writer, university grad, and equestrian living and working as a sex worker in Australia. I found Tilly through social media and was taken aback by her intimate…
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