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From Pandemonium to Eden – Hieronymus Bosch by Jason Collins

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter who researchers are still studying and learning new things about today. This is not surprising considering he is believed to be born somewhere between 1450 and 1456 in a Dutch city called s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Bosch’s art style is mostly oil paint on panels and focuses on aspects…
365 Books in 365 Days – Episode 167 by Annie Walton Doyle

Death Valley by Melissa Broder “I came to escape a feeling – an attempt that’s already going poorly, because unfortunately I’ve brought myself with me, and I see, as the pink light creeps out to infinity, that I am still the kind of person who makes another person’s coma about me.” There are certain authors…
Anamorphosis by J.Y. Tan

Everyone I meet is someone else entirely. I’m convinced there’s something larger than life in the greenish-yellow fog around your neckline. Are you home yet? I think about my friends 3 years away & hope they’re fine. If given a chance to be anonymous, I wouldn’t take it because apart from these roundabouts there’s nothing…
Chouette: A Review by T.S. McNeil

Things are not always as they seem. What appears normal, even ordinary, can turn out to be a dream. Prose fiction is particularly tricky, particularly in terms of the narrative. The oddest things put in the most casual ways. Chouette by American author Claire Oshetsky is the strangest sort of weird. The one that comes…
13! by Alisson Madrigal

Kiara’s name is “Kiara Kariri.” Read this in my 6 y.o. voice. Fiamma is a title (one has a form to quickly announce, tell others, and also to pressure these into a utility for the larger whole of the territory-in-construction).It’s more like a role than an individual, implying a level of uniqueness. Initial development: ‘Finally,…
365 Books in 365 Days – Episode 161 by Annie Walton Doyle

Pure Color by Sheila Heti “What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward-turning eye, which breathes significance into all of existence-for what is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?” If you’ve ever read Sheila Heti before, the themes and questions of Pure Color…
Bizarrely Beautiful: Derek Weisberg by Jason Collins

Derek Weisberg is an American sculptor that creates ceramic sculptures that resemble the human anatomy yet do not fully look human. His humanlike ceramic creations have garnered Weisberg many awards while studying and has allowed the world to see his artwork. Below we will explore the bizarrely beautiful artworks created by Weisberg and who he…
365 Books in 365 Days – Episode 151 BY Annie Walton Doyle

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn “My human coworker sometimes talks about not wanting to work, and then he’ll say something quite odd and rather silly. What is it he says, now? There’s more to a person than the work they do, or A person is more than just…
Broader Depictions– The Art of Wes Bishop: an Interview by Mauve Perle Tahat

What are your thoughts on being a self-taught artist? It’s something I am a bit self-conscious of actually. I started off in college as an artist, wanting to become a studio artist and to have my “paying job” be a graphic artist/cartoonist. That was kind of my thinking through much of my high school years.…
War, We Choose You!:Khaled Akil by Jason Collins

Khaled Akil is a Syrian-born artist who is best known for his photography series called Pokemon Go, which is set in Syria. Akil is a self-taught artist and photographer but comes from an artistic background, with his father being a political artist. Akil is currently based in Istanbul, Turkey, where he creates his unique artworks…