Category Archives: Spring 2017
Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life by Nato Thompson
Written on April 2, 2017 at 8:57 am, by Michelle Lisa
Since first merging onto the Information Highway, I have harbored doubts as to whether scholarship could long survive the digital age. Google makes it so, so easy to skim the surface of a given subject, lighting here for this weighty quote, there for that purloined insight. Who could say whether a work is the product Continue Reading »
THE DARK BEHIND THE SUN: Sarah Gerard’s Sunshine State
Written on April 2, 2017 at 8:57 am, by Michelle Lisa
Sarah Gerard’s second book is a blending of personal essay, deeply researched journalism, and sudden, gutting truths. In the title essay, Gerard writes of a green-cheeked conure she and her husband adopted: “She chewed everything… She sought out our wounds and pulled at them, then groomed open the flesh even wider. She had a taste Continue Reading »
YOU CAN’T PRETEND A VIBE: A Conversation with Aja Monet of Smoke Signals Studio
Written on April 2, 2017 at 8:57 am, by Michelle Lisa
REDEFINING THE MODERN MUSIC FESTIVAL FROM THE GROUND UP
Written on April 2, 2017 at 8:57 am, by Michelle Lisa
WHEN I GROW UP
Written on April 2, 2017 at 8:57 am, by intern
When I Grow Up is the backdrop to an exhibition of BUREAU SPECTACULAR’s work, entitled insideoutsidebetweenbeyond, currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. BUREAU SPECTACULAR is an operation of architectural affairs founded and led by Jimenez Lai since 2008. It is located in Los Angeles. BUREAU SPECTACULAR imagines other worlds and Continue Reading »