Back in the Car: How an immersive rave exhibition took me back to 1995

Aug 14, 2025

Photography by Cian O’Riain The popular VR experience In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats arrives in Leeds, promising to transport audiences to the birth of UK rave culture. For me, it unlocked a flood of teenage memories – nights in Novas and Escorts, Timberlands on the...

Stuart Jackson’s evolving art series strips it back to what matters

Aug 14, 2025

With decades of creative direction experience behind him, Stuart Jackson’s latest personal project – a growing series of powerful typographic works – is less about clients and more about creative clarity. Stuart Jackson has launched a striking, text-led art...

Dana Awartani’s Gentle Reparation of Gaza

Aug 14, 2025

BRISTOL, England — Last year, Bristol’s Arnolfini cancelled two Bristol Palestine Film Festival events, leading to controversy and a boycott. After mediation with local groups such as Bristol Artists for Palestine, Arnolfini issued a statement apologizing for the...

Sonya Clark’s Communal Tapestry

Aug 14, 2025

Detail of Sonya Clark, “The Hair Craft Project: Hairstylists with Sonya, Sonya Clark with Chaundra King” (2014), pigment print on archival paper (all photos Liz Kim/Hyperallergic) HOUSTON — Sonya Clark might be best known for her use of human hair as medium and...

Caribbean Artists Take on the Myth of Tropical Escapism

Aug 14, 2025

SASKATOON, Canada — Contemporary Caribbean art exhibitions at an institutional level are all too rare. Those that reflect an understanding of the region’s intertwined histories are particularly uncommon. So I can say, as a Trini-Canadian writer and curator, that my...

At 82, Meredith Monk May Finally Get Her Due 

Aug 14, 2025

“She, among all of us, was the uniquely gifted one — is the uniquely gifted one.” So avers none other than Philip Glass, minimalist composer extraordinaire. The “she” in question is Meredith Monk, whose unconventional genius epitomized the creative avant-garde during...