Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy

In the international queer community, Arewà Basit is known as a dancing, singing don-diva who makes music, performs in drag, and co-leads the Black queer production organization Legacy. These days, she’s also making headlines for being the subject of a “controversial”...

Photographs That Depict Dementia With Dignity

In photographer Alicia Vera’s portrait of her mother, Concepcion, she gazes skyward, her expression somewhere between curious and awestruck. The image has enough stylistic mottling and grain to obscure any sort of background, but Concepcion is clear: broad cheekbones,...

The Artist Freeing Museums’ Captive Instruments

Satch Hoyt (undated) (photo by and courtesy Gabriel Schimmeroth) HAMBURG, Germany — “Ok, stop the cameras,” the head conservator commanded from the belly of the storage department. “I want to hear what these instruments sound like without Satch wearing the...

A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface

New York City is defined in many ways by its iconic infrastructure, from our parks to the soaring towers of the Brooklyn and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridges, and even the controversial roadways of Robert Moses, which displaced many communities of color, leaving a legacy we...

Lament: mourning ecologies after extreme wildfires

Australia, Greece, Canada, Spain, Siberia, Portugal, Italy, France, the Amazon, California, etc. Videos of wildfires have been appearing on our screens repeatedly and mercilessly, as we are moving deeper into a terrifying world of extreme weather events driven by the...