by Alexandra Marie Daniels Arts and Culture Editor “What’s your dream?” she asks. I look at my friend Marjon across the table at the little café on Second Avenue, where we regularly go for an affordable bowl of pasta and …

Imagine: A Conversation with OVO’s Artist Director Marjon Van Grunsven Read more »

by Michelle Chen – USA – The sun pounds down on El Max like a scalding flint. The tiny Egyptian fishing town bordering the Mediterranean seems little more than a narrow valley of cascading cement houses. But unexpectedly, the village …

Life’s Work: Gudran Artistic Collective Promotes Culture as Development in Egyptian Fishing Town Read more »

by Sarah McGowan Features & Photo Editor, The WIP – USA – Recently relocated to Los Angeles, artists Kim Strouse and Joseph Michael Lopez are no strangers to the often aggressive nature of both “big city” life and life itself. …

Exploring the Edge: Young Couple Brings the Rita Project and Birth Write to Los Angeles Read more »

by Nancy Van Ness – USA – I know what I look like, more than most people. I study photographs and film footage of myself dancing in a unitard assiduously, in order to hone my work. Not many people scrutinize …

Unreal Beauty Is Dangerous to the Soul Read more »

By Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany – Ever since the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe was inaugurated in Berlin two years ago, it has become a major tourist attraction. The vast monument consists of a sprawling field of …

Art Against Forgetting: stumbling over Germany’s sordid past Read more »

by D-L Nelson – France – Geneva, Switzerland – “The chair is back,” Geneva residents are saying to each other. They are referring to a 12-meter (39-foot) wooden chair that stands between spouting fountains at the recently renovated Place des …

A Chair Can Be a Powerful Symbol Read more »