A Year On, Ai Wei Wei's Human Flow Is More Relevant Than Ever
Last week, on a gusty afternoon of spotless blue skies, the global refugee crisis arrived on the Upper East Side, roosting beneath the...
Sex, Death and Butterflies in Michoacan
The migration of the North American monarch butterfly between Mexico and Canada is a journey of life, death and rebirth, a testament to...
Exhibition Review: Eugene Richards' The Run-on of Time
Courtesy of © Eugene Richards In the arts, context plays various roles, be it to make sense of a work, enhance and deepen its meaning -...
Exhibition Review: The Whitney's Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again
The Whitney’s new exhibit, “Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again,” comes no closer than any previous endeavor in shattering the...
Book Review: The American Fraternity, An Illustrated Ritual Manual
Courtesy of © Andrew Moisey Have you heard of Diane Fossey? She was a pioneering primatologist who spent years studying packs of...
Exhibition Review: Gordon Parks
Our fascination with beginnings, with the nascent in art, music, literature, history, etc., is bound up with our obsession with what...
Book Review: Mirror Mirror
Ryan McGinley’s book, a companion piece to his show “Mirror, Mirror,” is, plainly put, a collection of nude selfies taken by people in...
Memory Connection and Loss: The Work of Hope Herman Wurmfeld
Courtesy of © Hope Herman Wurmfeld When photographer Hope Herman Wurmfeld moved from New York City to Rome in early 1964, post-war...
Samadhi Cafe: Haven for the beer-obsessed teutonophile
When your first opportunity to eat currywurst is inside a massive, drafty suburban shopping mall in Guadalajara, Mexico, you may found...
Diamonds in the rough: Street art in Guadalajara
Work by artists Peque vrs and Pwoz Mac, calle Morelos and Roja Gonzalez In case you hadn’t heard, art imitates life, which is no less...
The tattoo artist as healer
Sitting in the sun-lit office of Chapultepec-adjacent tattoo shop Chamuca at three in the afternoon, owner and artist Rodrigo Ruiz...
Artist Profile: Annamarie Pabst
As artists, the sources of our inspiration are rarely chosen deliberately; they choose us, seizing our imagination and wringing from us...
Lake Chapala's ukulele cartel
A succinct visual summation of Ajijic, Mexico's retirement paradise on its largest lake. Ukuleles. More and more, it seems like they’re...
"Gastronomic Corridor" or the mayor's poorly polished turd?
Mayor Alfaro (center) holding forth during COME's inauguration in October Upon completion of an examination of Guadalajara’s newly minted...
Casa Luna in Tlaquepaque: Feast for the eyes, some good leftovers for the tongue
Nothing fogs up the windscreen of the critical faculties like having within arm’s reach an eight-foot-tall tree (fake, but made of real...