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Artwork: A Color for Every Destination (detail), by KT Hancock, for Port of Seattle

Art that does more

On how the Sea-Tac Airport art collection reminds us of what public art can do.

Image via Euphoria

what i call a quandary

On what binging Euphoria taught me about writing a memoir.

Profile series: Responsible Disruptors in Design

On the eight winners of the METROPOLIS Responsible Disruptors 2022 international design competition.

Image created by Natasha Loewy and Owen Takabayashi for The Seventh Wave

The sound of absence

On Aaliyah, archives, and permanence. Edited by Briana Gwin.

Art book Review: ‘Road to Nowhere’

On Eirik Johnson’s photography book Road to Nowhere and the Seattle viaduct.

Image by Portland Art Museum

Review: Hank Willis Thomas

Review of Hank Willis Thomas’s retrospective at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon.

Illustration by Tom Ralston for Bright Wall/Dark Room

baby got going

On growing up in the Chicago suburbs, idolizing High Fidelity, and coming to terms with its failures.

Interview: Complicating Cancel Culture

Interview with author Christine Ma-Kellams on her novel The Band, K-Pop, and cancel culture.

The ganzfeld Effect

On grief and a James Turrell artwork inside of a Louis Vuitton store in Las Vegas.