4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (813+ words) As one of Our Culture Mag’s featured arts critics, Maria Bregman offers readers a distinctive international perspective on the world of art and literature. Now based in London, she is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the UK arts magazine…...

5+ day, 22+ min ago   (365+ words) Same subject: a crowded bar at 1 am. What changed is where the light comes from, and the reasons are half technical and half a shift in what we want to remember. Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is where…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (760+ words) A campaign can begin in many places: on a rough sketch, a passing thought, or an image stored up for later. Soon, that humble start can appear on screens, city walls, social media feeds, and magazine pages. Though the format…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (182+ words) Xuening Wang’s Impossible Reality makes this feedback immediate. Participants observe themselves through a screen with slight latency and gradually adjust their posture according to the delayed image. Each bodily response returns to the screen and influences the next movement. A…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (230+ words) When we think of marking the skin, we may envisage a tattoo with the name of a loved one or an aphorism written across the arm, but the concept of tattooing dates back to some of the earliest humans whose…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (134+ words) Our Culture Mag August was full of powerful new releases, including Phoebe Bridgers‘ much-anticipated indie comeback and a wave of exciting debuts. Here are six album covers that caught our eye last month. The cover artwork for Mike D’s debut…...