The Stupidest Way Is Sometimes the Best Way
Four people picked the hardest path on purpose, and found something worth keeping there.
Artists on the Architecture of After 9/11
The emergency ended twenty-five years ago. The cameras never got the memo.
Built to Last, Designed to Vanish
Your work will outlive the hard drive it lives on, if you're lucky.
Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)
The detectors were supposed to catch the bots, not the people who never used one.
Already Somewhere Else
While Christie's guesses what art tech billionaires will buy, some artists are using their technologies against them
The Satellite Is the Camera
Every generation of artists quietly steals the tools that were never built for art.
Happy 250th: Five Dispatches From Everywhere Else
Naturalized in Brooklyn, looking everywhere but here for once
Credibility Is the New Craft
What if the hardest thing to generate turns out to be belief?
Contrast Is Meaning, Not Just Style
When everything is technically correct and tonally identical, who's left to tell you what matters?
What the Building Knew First
The best work in this issue couldn't exist anywhere else.