Anna Zaiachkivska: the purity of painting
How important are supposedly old-fashioned ideas like virtue or love to the practice of painting? Born in Ukraine,...
Embracing the strangeness of data
While traversing the accessions data of Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, one of the largest and most well-documented living...
Weaponized amenities and the open city
How things that make some people happy may be things that keep other people out.
Lori Vrba on film
A North Carolina-based fine art photographer reflects on memory and image making.
The human dimension of archives
A multi-disciplinary artist and activist whose work tackles themes like immigration, cultural and national identity, and film history, Brooklyn-based Mariam Ghani also explores the relationship between the artist and the archive.
East meets West
SCOPE gets schooled by Palestinian-Kuwaiti designer Danah Abdal on the importance of resurrecting traditional Arabian design methods. Her workshop series Nagsha is helping western designers to incorporate those methods in new but authentic ways.
Acting: “still low on the scale of being weird”
A young man’s crisis of meaning, captured in a moving eleven-minute film put together on shoestring budget by art students. SCOPE talks with the screenwriter and lead actor of the award-winning Girah.
Glimpse: Andre Joaquim
A glimpse of Brazilian photographer Andre Joaquim’s beautiful underwater imagery.
Everybody loves CARBS
What does hip hop with a Glaswegian accent sound like? Jonnie Common and Jamie Scott of CARBS provide us, somewhat sarcastically, with the answer to this all-consuming question in the form of their debut album, Joyous Material Failure.
Tupper Ware Remix Party’s Epic Quest to Annihilate Boredom
Wherein human journalist Dave Hurlow shares several burritos with a band that may (or may not) be from his home planet, and (barely) lives to tell their eon-spanning, intergalactic tale.
Safety in loneliness
Remember the movie The Ring, and how it brought your childhood fears and/or nihilist leanings to life? That’s where Croatian photographer Lidija Ivanek will take you, with her lonely landscapes and old school developing techniques.
Thinking about what’s for dinner
Despite the fact that many people aren’t sure where their food comes from anymore, journalist Kiera Butler says a program over a century old may, if it tries, have the capacity to spread the sustainable food movement.