Lipstick Traces
Which Spice Girl were you? If you were a female aged seven to 14 in 1996 you probably at least considered it. The Spice Girls…
Maria Bowler
World War 1.5
To make art is at once challenging and satisfying, like completing a puzzle. One of life’s great pleasures is to stand back and look at…
Graduate! It’s like, whatever.
So you’re graduating soon! Going out into the “real world” to be an “adult,” without the downy cushion of studenthood beneath your head. Good luck…
R.I.P-HOP?
If hip hop’s not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap’s just not the…
Winter Comfort’s Discomforted
Well, I suppose it’s official now. We’re deep in the throes of winter. The time of year when many of us head indoors, pull on…
Awkward Overtures
With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work…
Praising or Hell-Raising?
It is widely accepted that absolutely everything on our 6000 year old earth derives directly from one of two superpowers – 1) God or 2)…
Hearts on plaid sleeves
They say we’re living in a post-ironic age, that irony died on 9-11 and post-modern cynicism just isn’t doing it for us anymore. For our…
Six so so so super sincere songs
The Smiths — “Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want” Three “pleases” and not even one “pretty” from Morrissey, a grown man whose…