“It doesn’t matter if it’s an anticosmic retromingent defibrillator or a plastic

Badir McCleary stands in front of a jagged 340-ton boulder levitating 15 feet in

As you read this sentence, Black Rock City is preparing to welcome Burners home

Pixie dust, a penguin in vintage shoes, colorful toy guns available for 10 cents—you’ll

Six years ago, Heather Beardsley visited the site of an infamous—and recent—nuclear

Jules Verne, Ursula Le Guin, and Ray Bradbury obsessively constructed imaginary realms.

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“By design, life is a play of opposites,” says Uzor Ugoala, whose dreamy photographs

“When you take weird risks and opportunities, weird shit presents itself,” says

Chaotic, unruly, overwhelming, beautiful. Los Angeles-based artist Elliott Hundley’s

Jay Silverstein kicks off his artist statement with a staggering statistic: “The

“What is a woman?” Perhaps you’ve heard this question pinging around the darkest

“Most of my work is breaded with oatmeal,” says Jonah Jacobs of his amoebic sculptures.

In the 1970s, New York City was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, a city reeling

Like carcasses hung from meat hooks, emerging artist Ophelia Arc’s fiber sculptures

With their bright colors, soft surfaces, and dotted patterns, James Hsieh’s plush

Glass artist Eunsuh Choi creates flame-worked sculptures that narrate her journey

Colorado sculptor Beth Naumann earned a degree in interior architecture and product

In the past decade, Justin Tate has created more than a hundred projects in over

“Death is certain. But I recommend avoiding it,” quips artist, illustrator, and

Jess Self’s mixed-media figures are expressive, active, and alive. She incorporates

Massachusetts artist Elizabeth Alexander makes a compelling statement about the fetishistic

Bryan David Griffith gave up a successful consulting business and lived a nomadic

Like Victor Frankenstein before her, ceramicist Molly Melican breathes life and personality

It’s hard not to giggle at Alya Hatta’s blobby, inflatable nudes, which bend