TRAVIS DIEHL is a writer, editor, and critic based in New York. His column on art and culture, “Libra Season,” runs the last Wednesday of the month.
The MAGA offensive against transgender people isn’t just cruel or stupid or political read meat – it’s also psychic gentrification.
Los Angeles is on fire – again. When disasters feel like AI text prompts, what can’t be predicted or replaced?
How do you distinguish resolve from resistance to change? Every new year, we tend to cling to our resolutions – but 2025 is high time to learn from their very doubtfulness.
Following Trump’s slop-fueled, broligarchic triumph, one poll worker asks: How can art get back to turning clout into power?
Art tries to broaden your mind; food actually does. Travis Diehl’s new monthly column, “Libra Season,” chronicles the art world of the overwrought 2020s, starting with a salad.
In an era of doxxing and cancellation, nobody wants to be the culture war’s next lightning rod. But if art’s new survivalism can be frustrating, it should also prompt us to ask who art is really for.
The South Korean artist’s oozing, wheezing sculptures show the difference between flesh and machines to be uncomfortably small.
In New York, Atkins’s new videos magic away the fourth wall between art and audience and manifest the grotesqueries of getting too close.
