In the Studio with Delita Martin
Zahrah Butler visits the Houston-based studio of Delita Martin to speak about her textured portraits of Black women and crafting a visual narrative with natural iconography.
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Tay Butler: Blackness, Representation, and Reclaiming Legacies
In September’s co-publishing initiative with Oxford American, Zahrah Butler reflects on the work of Tay Butler, a Houston-based artist who examines the commodification of Black athletes and soldiers.
The Art of Living with the Dead: On Dario Robleto’s Care for Ghostly Matters
In this GHOST theme feature, Emile Mausner examines Dario Robleto’s materially-rich sculptures, where melted bullet led and ring-finger bones evoke ghosts of the Civil War.
Blueprints for the Visitation
In our inaugural release of the GHOST theme, Valentin Diaconov traces the practice of larí garcia, who utilizes objects within their installations as a postscript to loss and grief.
John T. Biggers Murals in Houston, Texas
In July’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Daniel Fuller travels around Houston on a John T. Biggers mural tour, detailing the artist’s legacy left around the city.
Myriam Amri and Xitlalli Alvarez Almendariz’s Archival Hauntings in An Act to Prohibit Camels and Dromedaries from Running at Large, Friends Gallery, Houston
May Howard reviews the role of artists-archivists Myriam Amri and Xitlalli Alvarez Almendariz in An Act to Prohibit Camels and Dromedaries from Running at Large at Friends Gallery, Houston.
Inside Rice University’s 2025 UFO Conference
In June’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, UFO enthusiast and author Will Clarke goes behind the scenes at Rice University’s 2025 Archives of the Impossible Conference in Houston, Texas.
In Conversation With Anthony Suber
Zahrah Butler interviews Houston-based artist Anthony Suber on his community-based work through the Black Man Project, the abstraction of identity through masking, and hopes for the future.
In the Studio with Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr.
Jeremy Johnson visits the Houston-based studio of Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr. to discuss internet nostalgia, Black abstraction, and collective world-building.
