"The articles written about the mildly transgressive Manhattan micro-scene known as Dimes Square are themselves evidence of a cultural drought; chroniclers of the zeitgeist are desperate for new fodder."

"Women, more than men, tend to feel stultified by long-term exclusivity—despite having been taught that they were designed for it."

>"In her new book, the philosopher Amia Srinivasan asks: “What would it take for sex really to be free?”"

"Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne” is a masterwork of sculpture that also reads as a powerful, disquieting depiction of unwanted pursuit and predation."

“According to curator Valentina Peri and the theoretical strands that inform her practice, the Internet manifestly has an extraordinary influx on how we conceive, frame and construct our identity and confront ourselves with the external to _...Read More_

Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures. Text by Dean Kissick _...Read More_

It is obvious to the postmodernist that the only way to move forward as a species is to annihilate the existential sexual differences between us, as we are seemingly incapable of addressing the inequalities between human beings on the _...Read More_

On Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, and leaving musehood behind

“Cajsa von Zeipel’s figures are glitched simulacra of the human form. Von Zeipel uses silicone – a material that is common in implants, sex toys, and kitchen equipment – to bring her sculptures to life. Beneath the silicone there are parts _...Read More_

RADIATION, FILM, TRAUMA, THE ELEMENTS: to expose is a one-way verb. The nuclear reactor knows nothing of the bodies it degrades. Light is invulnerable to the celluloid it stains. The man who exposes himself does so without empathy. There’s _...Read More_