Small Atoms
“Don’t look at me,” she said. “I’m just an idea woman.” Three purple balloons floated in the winter air. They sometimes bumped into each other and said excuse me like they didn’t mean it. One of them...
View ArticleArt is Not an Essential Asset
How a well-fortified city was reduced to a smoldering wasteland “Art is not an essential asset,” proclaimed Derek Donnelly in December 2013, using philistine language befitting his profession as the...
View ArticleAnd I Aint Doing Nothin’ Else
How a financial institution topped the salsa charts “Qué bueno es vivir así (how sweet it is to live like this),” goes the refrain, “comiendo y sin trabajar (getting fed without having to work).” Thus...
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New Shaolin
A Staten Island native interviews residents of NYC’s “last Gold Coast.” Images by Wills Glasspiegel. Featured designs by Mike Shane. It wasn’t until I was living in Puerto Rico in the Fall of 2012 that...
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Repetitive Beats Prohibited
A brief history of the war on dancing, twenty-five years after the birth of “the first ecstasy generation.” Adapted from a talk titled The Criminalization of Repetitive Beats and The Ongoing War on...
View ArticleRequired Reading with Alex Weheliye
Illustration by Jeremy Dabrowski It’s not every day that you find someone tweeting about Ralph Ellison’s record collection, weaponized architectures, and Young Thug remixes in the same week. That’s...
View ArticleGet Off My Island
A brief history of breakaway island republics. Never mind buying a private island. For more than a century, utopians (okay, libertarians), pranksters, modern-day pirates, real-life Don Quixotes, and...
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Island Life
Exploring Jacolby Satterwhite’s Island of Treasure, the most recent video in his Reifying Desire series. All images courtesy of the artist. Drive it in between.—Grace Jones Outside Jacolby...
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