Hilary Irons finds a major theme of empathy and connection in the work of seven graduates from Maine College of Art’s MFA program, highlighting how artists are responding to the precarity and isolation of the world and setting out to change it.
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Megan Grumbling previews two short films by Mariangela Ciccarello and Philip Cartelli that trace geologic and migratory histories in the Mediterranean.
Katie Vida suggests a multidisciplinary way of understanding photographer Tad Beck’s three series of work in Technique/Support at Grant Wahlquist Gallery.
Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo speaks with Carolina González Valencia about her new publication, How to Clean a House: A Family Album, a 20-page book of postcards that combines instructions on how to clean someone’s house as a domestic worker with milestones from the migration experience of the artist’s family.
Eden Osucha speaks with filmmaker Natalie Bookchin about the phenomenon of video self-portraiture in the internet age, and what it means for resistance and identity.
Douglas W. Milliken and Jenna Crowder preview the agony and the ecstasy of Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s epic cinematic opera, River of Fundament.
The creative community doesn’t just exist in bigger cities — and in a small village, the work might even have a bigger impact. by Marques Bostic