In a Time of Displacement, Arab Artists Negotiate the Meaning of Home
Catherine Kustanczy, in her article In A Time of Displacement, discusses an exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto entitled "Home Ground: Contemporary [...]
What Teeth Tell Us About Social Class
In her insightful article, "Poor Teeth," journalist and educator Sarah Smarsh discusses the class politics of teeth. She writes, "My family’s distress over our [...]
Poets Speak Out For Refugees
Five poets speak and share their poetry about the recent European refugee crisis in the October 16th edition of The Guardian. "'No one leaves [...]
The Waste Land Project
The Waste Land is an installation project by Daniel Domig and Christopher Domig that employs theatre and poetry as a way of reviving T.S. Elliot's [...]
The Poetry of Bearing Witness
Jewish poet Howard Richard Debs, in his post (The Poetry of Bearing Witness) on poetry and the Holocaust, grapples with Theodore Adorno’s famous statement, [...]
The "Heirloom" Project
“The “Heirloom” project by poet Shin Yu Pai is a simple idea — using vinyl stickers to imprint letters on fruit — that invites visitors to have a [...]
Getting the Dirt: New Perspectives on Trash in New York City
Mierle Laderman Ukeles "realized that in the eyes of society she had lost her “artist” status and had become one of the maintenance class [...]
Ethno-Graphics
Ephemera, sketches in pen and watercolours, and Post-It notes... Carol Hendrickson's visual field notes in Vietnam.
Revisiting a Jewish Ritual with Nicole Eisenman
Check out a fascinating article on rethinking Jewish ritual with a painter Nicole Wiseman. Excerpt: "Nicole Eisenman’s painting “Seder” puts the viewer at the center of [...]
Of Winter Moons By Lisa Stevenson
Lisa Stevenson on ethnography, philosophy, poverty and religion. Excerpt: "Wallace Stevens, in his poem “The Snow Man” [...]