Bella Dalton-Fenkl
Video game deftly blends fantasy, sci-fi, and an emotionally powerful story of the real-world...
Analgesic Productions, the two-person game development studio consisting of Marina Ayano Kittaka and Melos Han-Tani, is known for games with rich narratives and the...
The political depth of Japan’s historical salon culture is especially interesting
Salon Culture in Japan: making art, 1750-1900, co-published in November 2024 by University of Washington Press and The British Museum, is a window into...
‘This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World’ imagines the unimaginable future
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, published in 2022, was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery, which is the...
Sally Wen Mao’s latest poetry examines how colonialism objectifies people
The Kingdom of Surfaces, a poetry collection by award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao, was published in August 2023 by Graywolf, the same press that...
Tradition and Triumph: A breathtaking look at Japanese women artists
From November 13th, 2022, until May 13th, 2023, the Denver Art Museum will hold the exhibition Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone...
“Return Flight” is poetry like transcendent sweet-sour citrus
In the acknowledgments of the prizewinning poetry collection Return Flight (Milkweed Press, 2022), its author Jennifer Huang writes that the book is “in part,...
Togetherness—a poetry collection comes together like a pearl necklace
Togetherness, written by non-binary Fujianese drag performer Wo Chan (who performs as The Illustrious Pearl), is a multi-faceted poetry collection with a compelling structure....
“Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam” peels back the...
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam is the epitome of intersectional work. The author, NYU professor Thuy Linh Nguyen...
“Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty” reveals what is seen and unseen in the...
In the introduction of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty, Julie Nelson Davis, a professor of art history, reminds us that we cannot assume...
