In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work ...

Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin. Summer Kim Lee is an assistant professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. Her ...

Years, Abbas Akhavan’s current exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (UBC), loosely ...

In the late 1950s, Susanna and Marie sold the estate and bought a Victorian house in Jewett, an adjacent Catskills town, and ...

Emma Fiona Jones. Emma Fiona Jones is a writer and artist based in New York. She has contributed to publications including ...

The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, that the sunlight in LA is too bright and loud. For over an hour I passed, ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small and skeletal, with an exposed spine and arteries: dredging pipes that ...

In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot from the floor. Their color resulted from ...

For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its yellow cover reflect and shimmer. It’s not a rigid object but a source of ...

During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling the Italian public night and day. The oversize, ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...