Ilya Kharkōw is a queer writer living in exile from Ukraine, where his native town is now under Russian occupation. His writing is a testament to the power of resilience, creativity, and a refusal to be silenced.
The Nomadic Journal
Exploring art, architecture, and itinerant ideas — a project of DoppelHouse Press
Rock ‘n’ Roll Reconstruction
Boris Grebenshchikov, a founding father of Russian rock music and voice for peace, has been creating music for over fifty years. The following interview was conducted in two parts in 1984 by Joanna Stingray, an American who smuggled tape recordings of Aquarium, along with several other bands, out of the Soviet Union.
“People Are Waking Up”
“I hope that all this music which is being created will change the way of thinking…the young people here will try and discover themselves – to begin to live! That is what I am hoping for – to awaken them, to make them free in their own lives.” —Boris Grebenshchikov, April 1984
“IMPASSE: A Collective refusal of memory”
By Jana Zimmer
“Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget?” A Palestinian-American lawyer said this, but everyone who hears it, thinks it is about them.
David Starkey poems On Caravaggio
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. The Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, he is currently Co-editor of The California Review of Books, and the Publisher […]
FROM WHITE CITY MODERNISM TO L.A. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
by Susan Horowitz
Through an international project about Bauhaus-influenced architecture that has been rediscovered, I came to focus on Ben-Ami Shulman (b. Jaffa 1907–d. Los Angeles 1986), who was posthumously recognized …
Collaborating lines
Xavier Veilhan interviewed by Dorothée King
On a summer day in 2022 I visited the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. I was drawn into and intrigued by the diverse simplicity and the all-embracing beauty of the colorful lines of Xavier Veilhan’s A3-sized ink on paper lockdown drawings…
Hunting for Art on the Ring Road
BY AHMED NAJI -أحمد ناجى
The shop walls were covered with wooden planks, on those planks, drawings of people in a state of motion. They were crossing the street or leaving a building, but here they were stuck in a void.
That was the first exhibition by “Amr El Kafrawy” for me to attend. We met for a short interview. He told me about his work approach: sitting in some “internet café” overlooking Talaat Harb square in the Downtown area, getting out a small camera while watching people, and secretly taking photographs of them. Afterward, he drew on those photographs to put them back in a state of motion. He turned them into black shadows crossing the empty wooden planks covering the “Artellewa” gallery walls.
Sadie Barnette: Space for Retelling Black History
By Lauren “LP” Spencer
Barnette’s exhibition creates an immersive experience that guides the audience into her world to confront political, social, and familial issues related to state-sponsored, racialized surveillance, intimidation, and violence.
HAGAR PEETERS Selected poetry
Select poems by Hagar Peeters, translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Judith Wilkinson
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