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Editorial: Issue 99
By Chase Westfall If popular portrayals of magic have taught us anything, it’s this: to the inexperienced conjurer – beware! The forces you summon can have a mind (and power) of their own.* It follows, then, that the magic ...
The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Nemesis
By Greyory Blake 00. This is what we know. Times were urgent, though that urgency was unrequited. There was a moment of excess and greed that assembled as avarice. An unprecedented, insurmountable, and ultimately meaningless degree of ...
Spells of Ruin
By Lap Le Have you seen the footage of an alpine newt tadpole forming from a single cell? (1) The one that is time-lapsed so we can see how the cell splits – then splits again, exponentially, until our eyes can’t make out the divisions. You ...
The Magic of Needles, Thread and Technology: Transforming Fashion and Visual Merchandising at the University of Memphis
By Lisa M. Williamson University of Memphis Classroom, 2019. Photo courtesy of Ramona Sonin. The Visionary and the Vision Call it kismet or coincidence, but when Ramona Sonin (or just Sonin to all who know her) named ...
INCARCERATED AUTHORS, ACTIVIST POETS, STUDENT DESIGNERS, LED BY WOMEN POETS + PRINTERS
By Jamie Mahoney and Liz Canfield One of many Bowe House Press collaborative artists books, sanctuary is the result of over two years of work by more than 50 writers, artists, and activists. It is a collaboration among the University of ...
Love Poetry From Machine Boy
By Yutong Liu When the machine loves a girl, thoughts are full, storage is full, everything is full… When I fall love in you, my life becomes different. When I fall love in you, I start my real life. I start to expect my ...
Blue is the Color of the User Interface
By Audrey Molloy Charles O’Rear, Bliss, 1996, digital photograph “…the first step into a new architecture of values comes in the setting of limits. Negatively drawn out of the darkness of Being, the field of linguistic ...
Announcing the Tennessee Triennial
By Jac Kuntz Today, there are over one hundred art bi and triennials around the world. Born out of an era of dazzling world expositions, the Venice Biennale was the first in 1895, though this millennia has seen a proliferation of ...
Regional Update: Memphis
By Austin McLellan Melissa Dunn, Taproot, 2019, acrylic on canvas. Photo courtesy of L Ross Gallery. Galleries in the Memphis area have scheduled a busy fall. The L Ross Gallery hosts Melissa Dunn’s show Near Earth Object September ...
The CMPLX: Art & Community Empowerment
By Pete Hoffecker Mejía Work by Lawrence Matthews in Safe-Keeping exhibition, 2019, photograph. Image courtesy of Pete Hoffecker Mejía. In early January of this year a new gallery opened its doors on Lamar Avenue in Memphis, ...