My real life is a mess, that’s true. I’ve been using my mom’s bank account to pay people for stuff on Venmo without her knowing, and now she’s filed a complaint for fraud. Do I tell her it’s me, I’m sorry, I never have enough money, I am always buying something for myself and occasionally for others too. Bella Hadid gave away $25,000 worth of coats to the Bowery Mission. If I hadn’t bought a bunch of shitty Zara blazers the other week I would have saved enough to have enough to actually help someone, is that it…?
Innisfree | Masha Kisel
After that first sighting, I shadowed the woman as she tapped along her walking staff. I visited the vegan Nepali restaurant where she ate, the Shakhti gift shop where she worked. Inside the employee-owned Café Assisi, I ordered a Rooibos tea and mimicked her blissful smile into the rising steam. I lingered by the community bulletin board. Reiki sessions. Bikes for sale. Missing pets.
Pangani | Michael Don
Tomorrow will be one week since the mall attack. Our roommates are out dancing. They’re younger than us, unmarried, work nine to five, and have been in Nairobi over a year. They live in large rooms featuring wood floors and built-in dressers. They lost a friend in the attack. Another […]
One Last Wish for Warmer Kisses | Basie Allen
Basie Allen is a poet and visual artist from New York City’s Lower East Side. His work carves parentheses in-between dirt and feeling. His debut collection of poems, Palm-Lined with Potience, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in March 2022. Cristina Iorga has earned an MFA in Printmaking from […]
Old New York | Chava Dimaio
The ‘new’ New York, even as new as it was, is already a memory of the past. Things are always changing. New York has not. This serves as an homage to the one thing that has stayed stable my entire life. When I grow up, I want to be just like you: Thanks New York.
Mormorial | Peter O’Brien
Joyce said, “My head is full of pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and bits of glass picked up ’most everywhere,” which leads me to integrate wit, wisdom, and wreckage where I find them.
Police State | Drew Richardson
I have always used art to express my personal struggles as a young, gay, neuro-atypical black artist, and to understand myself as an individual who is continuously being molded by my environment. Growing up as a black person in an environment with a high crime rate, being constantly reminded of […]
Captive Studies | Max King Cap
“Each painting is a crude diary of marking time, of hoping and losing hope, of standing still while the world carries on; punctuated by violence, bureaucratic indifference, and thwarted desire.”
The World Is Cancelled | Shaina Yang
“The World Is Cancelled” 2016, 4ft x 3ft, oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphite
Queer Party | Shaina Yang
Shaina Yang is a multidisciplinary visual artist with roots in California and Taiwan, now based in Brooklyn NY. They are interested in the stream of consciousness, family superstitions, and the collective mind.
Textures of Light and Shadow | Barbara Paulus
Barbara Paulus is an artist, writer and photographer living in New York. She studies film, publishes zines and binds her own books using thread and beeswax. To this end, she is learning to keep bees.