The varied, dazzling MFA shows that never were by Scott Gordon
Student art shows on the UW-Madison campus can be frustratingly hard to catch—often they’re up for a week or less in the Humanities Building or the Art Lofts. It’s well worth going out of your way, but unless you’re tapped into the campus art world you might not...
Pandemic can’t keep UW–Madison’s Pinc from bringing MFA show to public
In an early March email promoting his upcoming master of fine arts (MFA) show, the magnitude of the exhibition to UW–Madison graduate student Guzzo Pinc was clear. “Of all the events I’ve put on over the past years this one means the most to me,” Pinc wrote to fellow...
Resonance with Evil: Displacement, Physicality, and the Uncanniness of Witchcraft: Cate Richards’s “Turnips, Like Skulls, Are Heaped House High” by Amber Rose Cederström
Scholars of historical witchcraft occasionally fall prey to a tendency towards dry recitation of reconstructed facts, interpreting them narrowly within the confines of their particular disciplines—whether history, folklore, sociology, and so on. Especially for...
Hogarth at Pitzhanger: Artist Faisal Abdu’Allah on cutting hair at new exhibition about life in London by Samuel Fishwick
Ceci n’est pas un haircut. On the one hand, Faisal Abdu’Allah’s Live Salon is one of the best trims in town (also, free), and familiar territory: the barber’s chair, the unfurling of the cape, the snicker-snack of scissors. Yet in place of a reliable mirror to keep an...