This week in weekend links, we get to the bottom of Lil Nas X’s magnetic personality, queer artists discuss Tumblr’s brash ban of all nude art, and women’s health can be a literary trope: the sick girl narrative.
Read MoreThis week in weekend links, a romance author claims she has dodged her husband’s murder attempts, menopause gets visibility in media via whales, and Soraya Roberts discusses the exploitation of Native American women in Western art history.
Read MoreIn this episode of Art in Conversation, sculptor Coco Spadoni talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.
Read MoreJoin fields magazine and BookWoman at Austin Interfaces! We will read, meet, and be merry on Thursday, June 20, where we’ll hear from local writers Bei Jei Sei, Marilyse V. Figueroa, and Zai Sadler.
Read MoreIn this week’s weekend links, artists make fake money for very real loans, suggestions for summer reading, and an illustrator who draws inspiration from spiders.
Read Morefields is excited to host visual artist and musician Mark Renner for an exhibition and solo and full-band performances on July 5 and 6, 2019, at Big Medium’s Creative Standard gallery and Kinda Tropical in Austin.
Read MoreIn this week’s weekend links, nude artists battle the algorithm, beach reads come back into season, and Sarah Lucas’s performance piece One Thousand Eggs: For Women goes live in Los Angeles.
Read MoreIn this episode of Art in Conversation, sculptor Coco Spadoni talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.
Read MoreIn the latest weekend links, we explore the destruction of a childhood library, take an accidental acid trip with a Buchla 100, gauge the movie industry’s battle against Georgia’s abortion laws, look back at the history of fascist book burning, and rediscover Rudi Gernreich’s gender-defying apparel.
Read MoreJoin fields magazine and BookWoman at Austin Interfaces! We will read, meet, and be merry on Thursday, May 16, where we’ll hear from local writers Shannon Perri, Jessica Hincapie, and Mah-ro Khan.
Read MoreAndrew Ordonez is an artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a current resident of The Drugstore, a communal and collaborative studio space for artists located in Kansas City’s historic Katz Drugstore. Among many themes, his work explores geographical time capsules, artifacts, and urban debris within the context of history, heritage, and queer culture. He primarily works in photo media, painting, sculpture and décollage. We caught up with Ordonez after the Young Latinx Artists 23 exhibition at Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum, where his work was on display, to talk about migration, fragility, and symbolism in his recent work.
Read MoreFranny Choi’s Soft Science offers not only an exploration of what defines humanity, but ways in which to question, redefine, and reprogram our natural responses to the term human.
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