Issue 130

Tatu Tuominen is a Finnish artist whose work contextualizes archival material within discourses on ecology and built environment. A lecturer in printmaking at University of the Arts Helsinki, his practice includes printmaking, installation, collage, and moving image. Image: Can you tell me about your spiritual or religious background growing up? TT: It was shaped by…

  WHEN I WAS THIRTY, a fire destroyed my childhood home, where I still lived, and nearly everything I owned. Books and sketchbooks, clothes, furniture, and years’ worth of paintings and textile art in cotton, linen, and silk-all of it burned. Afterward, I turned toward making work in ceramics and steel. These media gave me…

A WEIGHTY COWHIDE over a coatrack. A mighty African woman adorned with elephant dung. A disheveled Latvian man indifferently stuffing an apple into a child’s mouth. All of these are contemporary renderings of the Virgin Mary (by Dorothy Cross, Chris Ofilli, and Ance Eikena, respectively). Over the past decade, the Western visual art scene has…

Perri Lynch Howard uses painting, drawing, installation, and audio recording to investigate the passage of light, sound, and signal through the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. She is represented by the Seattle Art Museum Gallery and ArtX Contemporary and is a volunteer field recording ambassador with Quiet Parks International. Image: What kind of religious and cultural…

Burning Bright. Curated by Elizabeth Wyckoff and Timothy Young at the Yale Center for British Art, Fall 2025. Elizabeth Wyckoff. Blake. Yale Center for British Art Collection Series, 2025. WE HAVE HAD THE WORD ICON FOR A WHILE, since the 1570s at least in our language, but it has recently been subjected to fairly comprehensive…

TWO YEARS AFTER I received a monstrous beating, I became interested in pietàs. What happened, according to the police report filed in Morris Park, was this: The G train approached the Flushing Avenue stop at nine on a Tuesday evening. The car was half full. I was journaling and reading Flaubert. A man in matching…