It is a rare and special treat to find a band that makes music, especially music that one might classify as religious music, which is wholly devoted to the pursuit of beauty. The Opiate Mass, a Seattle-based collaboration of musicians, songwriters, visual artists, audio engineers, and authors, provides just such a treat. In this interview, […]
In 1980 the young artist Jeff Koons presented his first major solo exhibition, a window installation at New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art, titled, appropriately, The New. Alongside hermetically sealed vitrines showcasing “ready-made”1 household appliances like a New Hoover Deluxe Rug Shampooer and a New Shelton Wet/Dry 10 Gallon, there were images: meticulously reproduced […]
Ron Hansen’s fiction is tight and rich. Each of Hansen’s writings carries a certain arc: the plains of the American West, the sanctuary of a hushed convent, and the frenzied deck of theDeutschland are both terse and beautiful, places where redemption is particularly fitted to each character’s peculiar, compelling humanity. In this interview, Hansen talks […]
In this photo exhibit, Scott Strazzante juxtaposes images from a cattle-ranching family and a family living in a subdevelopment several years later on the same land to reveal the differences, complexities, and similarities between farm life and suburbia life.
In this interview, Seattle singer, songwriter, musician, artist Tara Ward (Late Tuesday, Urban Hymnal, Opiate Mass) discusses her first solo concept album, REVELATIONS OF A BLUE JACKET, a collaborative piece that included the work of a dozen visual artists.
In this interview, artist Barry Moser discusses racism, religion, and working amidst mystery.
Through her paintings and contemporary installation art, Natalie Ball deconstructs known narratives of the Native American past and reconstructs them, intersecting her own stories with history by considering the authenticity of belonging, especially as defined by blood quantum, tribal binds, and ethnographic portraiture.
This collection of paintings by Laura Lasworth were inspired by the life and works of the writer Flannery O’Connor.
I will make him with red hair and a fiery tongue I will give him a country and a century a limp and strong hands I will take his wife but give him a daughter lovely enough to break his heart and will send him across the sea where he will die an old man […]