Peter Cooley

Rodin, Despair

An articulation of how Rodin’s theory of the unfinished in art is embodied in his statue “Despair.”

TOJ Editors

#23: The Body Issue

Since the time of the early Greeks, Western thought has tended to downplay the importance of the body. By emphasizing the existence of an eternal realm of ideal forms above and beyond the material world, we have indirectly transformed the body into little more than a vessel for our true immortal souls. We may say […]

Erika Vogt, Jen Grabarczyk-Turner

Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll

An art installation by Los Angeles artist Erika Vogt that combines pulleys, plaster, found objects, drawings, and videos to create tension between our understanding of objects and to challenge prescribed art-making systems.

Alex McCauley

Tax Season

A bathroom rendezvous ends in karaoke.