May 16, 2020 – Five Shouts Out

Artist Spotlight: Giorgiko

EditorMay 16, 2020

Giorgiko (pronounced jee-OR-jee-koh) is the product of a collaborative experiment between Darren and Trisha Inouye melding minimal, expressive character illustration with large-scale classical painting. Giorgiko ...

Art

Iranian Calligraphy Meets Comic Books and Western Pop Culture in Jason Noushin’s Art

EditorMay 16, 2020May 16, 2020

[caption id="attachment_53881" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Jason Noushin works in his studio in Connecticut. Photo provided by Jason Noushin and used with permission.[/caption] In his exhibition “All Her Number’d Stars”, currently on...

Art

Using gravel, microphones and concrete to reexamine the myth of Sisyphus

EditorMay 16, 2020May 16, 2020

Adam Basanta, an artist, composer and performer of experimental music, likes to turn sound technologies into kinetic and sculptural installations. The way he handles sound objects can be fairly hostile,...

Art

When Chairs Become Extraordinary Sculptures

EditorMay 16, 2020May 16, 2020

Installation view, When Attitudes Become Chairs, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus (all images courtesy of the Pizzuti Collection) COLUMBUS, Ohio — When does a chair become something more than a chair? An...

Culture

The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment

EditorMay 16, 2020

Photo-illustration by Max-o-matic Last summer, BuzzFeed published an article detailing some of the betrayals that can occur when reality is reimagined as a genre of entertainment. Sourced from people who...