A Friend of the Devil
The story of a musical genius, made at a crossroads one night. Black road long and I drove and drove I came upon a crossroad The night was hot and black I see Robert Johnson With a ten dollar guitar...
View ArticleLoud as Hell
How difficult is it, to compile a playlist about Satan, hell or eternal punishment, without including any Heavy Metal or Hard Rock songs? It is quite a task. We tried anyway. Here you go:
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“What the fuck is that doing here?”
Ignacio Evangelista has portrayed the reality of the border between the United States and Mexico. A conversation about Trump, fear, and the line in the sand. You have photographed borders in Europe, as...
View ArticleLinesmen
How an ancient council turned lines into borders. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. -Lincoln Steffens In the beginning, there was a dot. The dot went for a walk, and...
View ArticleThe Crossing
On the brittleness of beliefs when fiction borders reality. An account. She came to me, her arms outstretched with their sharp coldness, reminiscent of industry. I touched the shine of her steel,...
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“Mainstream porn is quite insane”
Erika Lust has shifted the boundaries of the porn genre. Small dicks are welcome in her movies, sexist abuse is not. You call porn a “discourse about sexuality”. Is that discourse held in an...
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“A line can turn into a horrifyingly rigid reality.”
What was there first, the border or the division? We spoke with artist and cartographer Denis Wood about the connection between maps and control. Do maps still serve their purpose? Absolutely. But it...
View ArticleWalled Garden
With Kwangmyong, North Korea has built its very own version of the internet. A carbon copy, physically sequestered. You have heard about the “Great Firewall of China”, that epitome of modern...
View ArticleSolitude
Solitude is an island. Quite literally: Way up North, deep in the Arctic Ocean, there’s a small archipelago called “Einsamkeit”, German for solitude. It’s barren and icy, temperatures rarely go above...
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“We are surrounded by the lonely all the time”
Her experience of being alone in New York City inspired writer and artist Olivia Laing to explore the notion of loneliness and its intersection with art. In her book “The Lonely City”, she unravels the...
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Alone among each other
The work of Spanish photographer Verónica Losantos is influenced by absence. Her pictures show people and places between solitude and intimacy and capture the interplay of these two conditions. I...
View ArticleParty of One
Perhaps Paris is best enjoyed without company. 4, 6, 8 … 10 avenue des Champs-Elysées. A century old greenhouse hidden away on one of Paris’s loudest, most hurried streets. White wood paneling,...
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Margin Walker
Photographer Xavier Aragonès takes haunting pictures in the deserted outskirts of a Catalan city. We asked him to describe his process – and how escaping solitude enabled him to take better pictures....
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“Isolation isn’t the biggest problem”
It’s hard to imagine a more solitary place than space. How do astronauts prepare for it? We spoke with researcher Jack Stuster, who has helped NASA develop a training. You research and counsel...
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“Nature is probably best for solitude”
For his series “Escape”, the Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko has portrayed people who choose to live away from civilization and opt for the woods instead. You placed a quote by the Russian...
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The Banality of Color
Why looking at the past in color is such an uncanny experience. We tend to think of the past in black and white. Since color photography only became mainstream in the 1970s, anything from before is...
View ArticleLandscape, in C sharp minor
This is how you turn music into color. “Model required.” Casting call. In they come, one by one, heels clicking thunder on the gallery’s hardwood floors. The oak is centuries too old for this. The...
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Brain burning with color
Ukrainian painter Kazimir Malevich considered the art of painting shackled by natural forms and colors. In 1918, he wrote down why it needed to be set free – a manifest equally fascinating and crazy....
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“Psychedelics offer us life in high-definition”
Amanda Feilding is a leading advocate for the use of psychedelics to cure mental illnesses. She told us why LSD is not a party drug but should be taken while visiting the pyramids. When talking about...
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“The West has always had a discomfort with colors”
Living in Cuba, Rose Marie Cromwell encountered the strange, the surreal, and the spiritual. With her photos, she wove it into a story full of surprises. On your website, you write that you’re...
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