When you hear the words “drag queen,” what immediately comes to mind? Thanks to a certain show that won dozens of Emmys, maybe you think of uplifting, silly, and fun with a sprinkle of lessons on queer acceptance. Or maybe you think

If I’m being honest, I’m still exhausted this week. As a nation we’re still not our of the authoritarian weeds, and here on the home-front I am desperately trying to finish a master’s program which has already been extended six

For every American with even a shred of empathy and basic human decency, the past 24 hours have been exhausting. For that reason, we’re not writing a newsletter this week. Instead, we encourage you to close this email, turn off your

In this week’s interview with visual artist Daniel Alejandro Trejo, we make some disparaging remarks about the work of Donald Judd, Richard Serra, and other celebrated spatial artists whose pursuit of minimalist grandeur carry legacies of property damage, injury, and death. I suspect we will talk

My dear podcast listeners, how are you doing? Have you checked in with yourself recently? The perpetual fatigue and horror of the current societal and political upheaval seemingly numbs everything. Hopefully you are able to ward those feelings off as

The joke goes like this:    The science major asks, “Why does it work?”   The engineering major asks, “How does it work?”   The business major asks, “How much will it cost?”   The liberal arts major asks, “Do you want fries

As Mason points out in this week’s episode, every time there was a technological advancement in capturing image, experts of the art world have bemoaned the degradation of the “artistic value” of photography. And if you think of how we