The demise of an American hallmark automobile, the Pontiac, carries with it the loss of an American symbol. Jesse Sugarmann’s practice involves this loss, framing it as a product of the increasingly globalized auto-manufacturing […][…]
Laura Kikauka’s work acts against the coldly conceptual aesthetic that has reigned over modern and contemporary art since the late 1960’s. It is a return to sentimental forms, nostalgic feelings, and objects imbued with personality. […][…]
“Our manhood was defined by our acquisition.” (The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison) My first pair of “expensive” basketball shoes came right before my eighth birthday. It was near the tail end of my family’s annual back-to-school […][…]
Man struggles to be born, And birth is at risk of death. He feels pain and torment. For the first thing; and in his very beginning His mother and father Begin to console him for […][…]
