Perhaps this is the most demanding proposition in those five minutes. Chuma never tells the spectator what to know. She changes the conditions under which knowing, seeing, and following take place, then leaves us to notice that our own bodies have already been implicated.

From the history of Le Petit Versailles to questions of queer memory, stewardship, community, and renewal, Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, and Jason Llaguno reflect on three decades of sustaining an artist-run garden on New York’s Lower East Side.

Haruka Motohashi is a Tokyo-born, New York-based editor, colorist, and Emmy®-nominated documentary filmmaker. Rooted in visual arts, her work explores memory, geography, and identity. While her trilogy—Back Home, Nostalgia for Tokyo, and There Tokyo—probes familial separation, Motohashi shifts her inquiry toward the human impacts of displacement in her current project, Soilless Gift.

Didja see what Toady done? He knocked that ball clear across the field! That boy has a future and he’s making waves already—got the best test scores and the girls love him. The boys love him too! Toady is gonna have a blessed life, I can feel it.

Srija Wang is a Bharatanatyam artist trained in the Kalakshetra style under Guru Banshri Bhavi Shankar and Guru Kalayimamani Rohakanan. She’s trained rigorously since 2015, completed her arangetram in Chennai in 2023, and has continued into advanced karanas training under Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, while also leading her own school, Nrityaarpana School of Bharatanatyam.

We’d been sitting in Dale’s living room for over two hours. I must’ve flipped through his lone coffee table book a hundred times over the years. It was a National Geographic pictorial on various tribes of South America. Someone had circled the native women’s bare breasts and genitalia with a red sharpie. A few of these women also had checkmarks next to their bodies. I was reminded of learning that Native Americans didn’t want their photos taken because they thought it would s

Behro placed his mouth on the desk, shaping the lips into a silly sneer he hoped would make Atau smileside. He deignited the light and headed back to his quarters when an idea floated up and returned him. He sent a directive to his mouth to do a chattering teeth gag in case of physical touch application. That might go as far as making Atau chortle wag.

Ben poked his head into my office. “Hey bud, gonna need you to get the key to the green door before end of day. Thanks.”

Arrushi Chakraborty's work focuses on exploring the liminal space between disparate cultures, translating profound human emotions into graphic forms, and capturing the everyday poetry of urban environments. In this interview, she shares her creative transition from corporate graphic design to narrative illustration. She discusses the intense physical and emotional process of generating a wordless picture book about family heritage.

For pianist Hyunju Jung, performance begins long before sound enters the room. It begins in study, in listening, in the patient work of understanding how a score is built and what kind of attention it asks from the performer. Trained across Korea and the United States, Jung has developed an artistic life that moves between solo piano, collaborative performance, church music, choral settings, and teaching. Her practice is shaped by discipline, but its center is relational.

I won’t pretend to know what the shark is thinking. I just know it can’t keep its eye off me. I am full of vague memories and lost smells. I visit places I will never again exist. I touch metal leaves and the dog goes crazy.

I won’t pretend to know what the shark is thinking. I just know it can’t keep its eye off me. I am full of vague memories and lost smells. I visit places I will never again exist. I touch metal leaves and the dog goes crazy.

Yes, it’s true: I do things the hard way. I have no other choice! When I want a cup of coffee, I get up and make it. Sometimes I grind the beans and other times I use pre-ground ones that I’ve traded for. Either way, they end up in my coffeemaker. What’s that? Oh, it’s a little device I made—it’s not magical, it just saves a little time. Yes, while I do things the hard way, I sometimes think of workarounds and shortcuts. Things to make life a little less labor-intensive.

Finleigh Zack's work focuses on bringing perspective, awareness, and inspiration to conversations around mental health through community-centred movement and collaborative choreography. In this live conversation, Finleigh discusses founding her bicoastal dance company and implementing an artistic direction that prioritizes the emotional well-being of her dancers.

Wendy Wixom tore her underwear to shreds. She had a sense memory of doing this as a child to her Wonder Woman underoos, though that had been an accident. Sometimes it felt like most of her childhood had been an accident, so she tried to be as deliberate as possible as an adult.