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Weight Rooms and Mosh Pits: Tales of a Punk Rock Jock
My punk friends thought it was weird that I played sports, and my jock friends couldn’t understand why I had such stupid haircuts.
Tokyo Canvas Takedown: T-Shirt Design Theft and How I Fought Back
“Holy shit, they stole your art!” I discovered that one-line message when I opened Facebook a few weeks ago. A friend sent it, along with…
Why I Love This Monthly Conceptual Art Class at the Art Students League of New York
For the first time in 150 years, art students don’t have to take their physical bodies to 57th Street in Manhattan — they can learn…
Hello Internet: Meet the Creator Who Turned His Furry Friends into a Yuletide Hit
Hello Internet, My friend Hudson recently asked me to sing the lyrics to his new song Kitty Cat Christmas over some music. It’s not unusual…
Hello Internet: Dave Hickey Says It’s OK To Deface Ralphs, Damian Tries Not To Gatekeep Ed Ruscha
Manhattan, 8 a.m. I’m sitting at Margon’s on 46th street December 5 with my UNM friend Damian in the unlikely situation of celebrating Dave Hickey’s…
Hello Internet: Painting the Renewable Energy Renaissance
Hello Internet, Did you know the American South is a leader in renewable energy? This blows my mind. Besides haunted stuff and racism, what do…
Hello Internet: Hang Out With Me on Zoom So You Can Be a Famous Artist
Hello Internet, I began preparing this column to invite you to my upcoming virtual artist hangout, but it morphed into exploring reminders of how to…
A Body of Many Bodies
In There Must Be Other Names For The River, we ask ourselves about our personal and structural relationships with the drying river that today we…
No More Excuses
Being an artist means putting yourself out there. The deeper and more real your expressions are, the more you set yourself up for criticism. Sometimes…
Nothing Is Wasted
Billy McCall interviews Charissa Lucille about closing, then reopening Wasted Ink Zine Distro: “I have emotional whiplash from feeling so down — and then feeling…
Heading Southwestness
Southwestness publisher/editor Samatha Anne Carrillo shares the worldview and inspirations that drive her work: “In the real world, facts exist and science is real. …
Signs of the Times
Understanding social acceptability is important when creating art in the public sphere, such as political signs, street art and graffiti. Every time and place has…