Mouths for eyes and teeth on feet—surrealism thrives in the present day. Read about the artists putting a contemporary spin on surrealism, and then read about the new book The Need, in which an intruder is a mother’s doppelgänger. Finally, turn to The Millions for an interview with author Isabel Allende, author of A Long Petal of the Sea.
Read MoreIn this week’s weekend links, Hong Kong artists battle the extradition bill, journalist Lijia Zhang delves into the history of sex workers in China, and a New Yorker article deconstructs the MFA via two new novels: Loudermilk and Bunnies.
Read MoreMark Renner is a visual artist and musician based in Fort Worth, Texas. Having grown up in the rural countryside outside Baltimore, his work is infused with the stillness and solitude of rural living and countless hours spent quietly observing. His music was rediscovered after the Brooklyn-based label RVNG reissued his early material in the collection Few Traces. We spoke with Renner about his life and work, his friendship with the late Stuart Adamson, and his forthcoming album, Seaworthy Vessels Are In Short Supply.
Read MoreThis week in weekend links, we get to the bottom of Lil Nas X’s magnetic personality, queer artists discuss Tumblr’s brash ban of all nude art, and women’s health can be a literary trope: the sick girl narrative.
Read MoreThis week in weekend links, a romance author claims she has dodged her husband’s murder attempts, menopause gets visibility in media via whales, and Soraya Roberts discusses the exploitation of Native American women in Western art history.
Read MoreIn this episode of Art in Conversation, sculptor Coco Spadoni talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.
Read MoreJoin fields magazine and BookWoman at Austin Interfaces! We will read, meet, and be merry on Thursday, June 20, where we’ll hear from local writers Bei Jei Sei, Marilyse V. Figueroa, and Zai Sadler.
Read MoreIn this week’s weekend links, artists make fake money for very real loans, suggestions for summer reading, and an illustrator who draws inspiration from spiders.
Read Morefields is excited to host visual artist and musician Mark Renner for an exhibition and solo and full-band performances on July 5 and 6, 2019, at Big Medium’s Creative Standard gallery and Kinda Tropical in Austin.
Read MoreIn this week’s weekend links, nude artists battle the algorithm, beach reads come back into season, and Sarah Lucas’s performance piece One Thousand Eggs: For Women goes live in Los Angeles.
Read MoreIn this episode of Art in Conversation, sculptor Coco Spadoni talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.
Read MoreIn the latest weekend links, we explore the destruction of a childhood library, take an accidental acid trip with a Buchla 100, gauge the movie industry’s battle against Georgia’s abortion laws, look back at the history of fascist book burning, and rediscover Rudi Gernreich’s gender-defying apparel.
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