THE magazine

JOHN MCKISSICK’S BACKGROUND IN PHILOSOPHY BURNISHED HIS CURATORIAL debut, Utilities, at Radical Abacus, the project space amid warehouses in the endearingly coined LSD (Lower Siler District), [...]

GALLERY FAKE IS A CATCHY AND CHARMING TITLE THAT MASKS A disjointed show with a scattered agenda. By name alone, we might expect something akin to Meow Wolf’s OmegaMart (2012), in which the [...]

AXLE INDOORS AT PETERS PROJECTS CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF EXHIBITIONS in Axle Contemporary’s 1970 Grumman-Olsen aluminum step van. Now the truck is nowhere to be seen. Over the years, Axle had [...]

LOCAL LEGEND RON COOPER IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DEL MAGUEY Single Village Mezcals, which he discovered on a trip to Oaxaca in 1990, looking to create and fill fifty bluebottles with the roasted [...]

XAVIER MASCARÓ’S MEDIEVALISM IS ENTICING. THERE’S A POPULAR THIRST for a time when magic, religion, royals, sex, titles, birthright, bloodlines, sword fights, and death by beheading, [...]

CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER FIRST IMPRESSED US WITH HIS BEGUILING SHOW OF feathered boom boxes, which he later publicly smashed on the floor. This daring usurpation followed by the enthralling civic [...]

GIGI MILLS WAS RAISED IN A FAMILY OF CIRCUS-MEN, HAS NO FORMAL ART training, and developed a painting style that’s unavoidably derivative of Milton Avery, who painted in the early twentieth [...]

EDEN TURNED ON ITS SIDE IS A NINE -YEAR ENDE AVOR IN THREE PARTS: Photosynthesis, The Volcano Cycle, and Eden in Iraq. A selection from the first series (started in 2007) and two volcano images [...]

CHOREOGRAPHER MICAELA GARDNER’S FEDERAL DANCES WERE PERFORMED on three separate occasions over the weekend of June 27. Gardner began conceptualizing the dance’s eight vignettes two years ago and [...]

JOHN CONNELL’S SHOW A MIND TO OBEY NATURE coincides with a summer-long exhibition at the Harwood Museum in Taos. According to Brendan Connell, the artist’s son, Connell rarely showed a piece more [...]