
Justin Carder at Wolfman Books
Living & WorkingJustin Carder, bookstore owner and cultural producer, shares his journey to ownership and defining home and community in a rapidly changing Oakland.
More »Justin Carder, bookstore owner and cultural producer, shares his journey to ownership and defining home and community in a rapidly changing Oakland.
More »Monuments. presents the labyrinthine practice of Afrofuturist artist Sun Ra.
More »As diasporic artists, Won Ju Lim and Ma Li construct new homes—real and imagined.
More »Weston speaks with L.A. artist, Carolina Caycedo, about ways she investigates the impact of extractive economies and hyper development on communities, local systems of knowledge, and the environment.
More »Nicole Eisenman, Monica Majoli, and Ann Toebbe employ the imagery and implications of technology with subtlety, never losing the imprint of the human body that makes their work so personal.
More »Artist Mildred Howard takes us to Sweet Adeline Bakeshop in Berkeley, CA to discuss the city's rich political history, how it affects her art practice, and why she continues to build community in the surrounding area.
More »Abigail DeVille’s immersive, monumental installation at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The American Future, invites visitors to consider the image of the United States through the lens of Black Americans.
More »With recent works at SOMArts and YBCA, Sofía Córdova interrogates the power and consequences of existing as a person of color in the increasingly commodified space of digital media.
More »Cloaked in smoky haze, the surreal Californian landscapes of Young Suh's Wildfires are unsettling reminders of the urgency and proximity of climate change.
More »Iconography depicts the interpenetration of past and present in The People Are Coming, a mixed-media drawing on foil by the Karuk artist Brian D. Tripp.
More »Dorothy explores the artistic practice of artist Ani Liu and how she re-imagines portraiture and explores the translation between virtual to physical. In Liu’s most recent work, Real Virtual Feelings (2018), she examines how the digital realm affects our cognition and body chemistry.
More »"You’ve taught me that as I grow as an artist, I can think beyond the parameters I might even set for myself. You believe in dreams. I believe in wonder."
More »In their final episode, Jay and Elena reflect on all the highs of this past year, revisit their all-time favorite segments, and interview their ultimate art crush Tschabalala Self.
More »"I believe we planted that seed years ago, and I feel fortunate that it’s come to sprout this spring."
More »Weston talks with Oakland-based artist Katie Dorame, who creates narratives that explore colonialism and Native American pop-culture representations, leavened with moments of humor.
More »Dorothy examines the ways in which assistive technology has become a new terrain for artists like Trisha Baga, Stephanie Dinkins, and Cara deFabio.
More »Elena and Jay reflect on the decades-long careers of Black artists and consider what their re-emergence says about our current moment and for the future.
More »DB Amorin explores a queer Native "ambient identity" through video installations that include the geographic, the cognitive, and the historic.
More »Art Practical connects regional arts communities across the West Coast through programming and publishing initiatives, including regular monthly arts writing, AP Audio (a series of arts and visual culture-focused podcasts) and AP Books. Our first book Decolonizing Culture is an anthology of essays collected from four years of Anurandha Vikram’s #Hashtags column on Daily Serving for sale at Sming Sming Books and Objects.
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