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,...
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Lori Vrba on film
A North Carolina-based fine art photographer reflects on memory and image making.
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.
Re-imagining the demise of buildings
The construction of an exciting new building is a spectacle of optimism, and we tend to assume that once completed, a given structure will last forever. It never does, of course, but planning for the end of buildings remains rare. A new book, Buildings Must Die, sets out to change that.
Learning from Kigali
One of the fastest-growing cities in the world is Rwanda’s capital Kigali, and its challenges are as complex as any other urban centre’s. Guillaume Sardin explains how a new documentary research project led by his think tank and a team of Rwandan architecture students hopes to unveil the inner dynamics of one of its most diverse neighbourhoods.
I hear the voice of their wings
A brief look at the intersection of painting, photography, and poetry, as seen though the work of Leo Wang.
Only one universe to observe
Theoretical cosmologist Roberto Trotta talks to SCOPE about the anthropic principle, slow data, and his science’s happy similarity to art
A joyful soup
A world that crawls and shimmers with life: the organic, cosmological paintings of Fernando Jaramillo Vélez.
The faces behind the books
Steve Pyke depicts important thinkers in their mortal flesh.