By Ed Schad
As people, later in life, begin to mourn the lives they were never able to live, common laments involve time and undeveloped talents, misplaced priorities, and lack of attention to what could have been the great loves of one’s life. I personally mourn a never achieved facility with languages. … I can only stare at Paul Celan’s poems through the wet glass of translation.
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.
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…
Daryoush Gharahzad (b. 1976) is an Iranian artist currently based in New York. His artwork has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications. Alongside this, he has be included in several books, including The Artist, the Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation by Glenn Harcourt, which explores the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran.
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.
By Bansie Vasvani
Built, World investigates architecture and structural forms as articulations of injustice and longing. For some artists, freedom from oppression is expressed through their constructed worlds, while the impact of loss and displacement reverberate through some of the strongest works in the show.
By Seph Rodney
Around each bend in the Guggenheim rotunda, Alberto Burri’s works give off the scent of free-form experimentation, worked by both the elements and the will. He applied heat, flame, pressure to disparate mediums; he ripped and tore fabrics, allowed substances to dry, crack and fissure, all the time attentive to the process as well as to what could happen if something in the formula were changed. It seems counterintuitive that being so careful and particular, so watchful, would be tantamount to liberty for Burri. But his independence conspicuously reveals itself here.
By Krystina Mierins
In March 2015, the Carnegie Museum of Art announced that Ingrid Schaffner will curate the next Carnegie International (CI), the second oldest survey of contemporary art in the world. Over the next three years, Schaffner will attempt the Herculean task of assessing and distilling contemporary art from around the globe. Of particular interest is the Hall of Sculpture, a room that has proven to be highly appealing to artists and curators, but is riddled with challenges.
By Bansie Vasvani
Architectural construction, assemblage, and symmetry play a vital role in Róza El-Hassan’s sculpture. Deeply inspired by unnamed Syrian artists whose work she describes in an essay as avant-garde for its spontaneous expressiveness, El-Hassan’s own art comes close to capturing the ethos and pathos of these displaced people.
By Carrie Paterson
Among the many references loaded like cargo into Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza’s subtle and humorous sculptures are Southern California’s pattern of Filipino immigration, ecosystems, local bungalow architecture, shipping containers, chemistry and space travel. Yes, space travel, but we’ll get to that.
The Nomadic Journal 