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  • Essay

    A Black Neighborhood, Upended by a Highway, Looks to Reconnect

    Communities of Color in St. Paul, and Across the Country, Are Making Efforts to Remember and Rebuild

    by Ryan Reft |

    How do you remember—and reconnect—a neighborhood destroyed by highway construction over a half-century ago?

    Since 1983, this has been the mission of Saint Paul, Minnesota’s annual Rondo Days festival. “[You see] …

  • Essay

    Interstate 10 Is More Than a Road

    Its Recent Closure Reminds Us of How We Need to Rethink Our Transportation, and Ourselves

    by Wellington Reiter |

    Funny thing about the world we have created and the structures we build—they are only really seen for what they are when in states of abandonment. Our built environment reveals …

  • Poetry

    Flood Potential

    by Jennifer Kronovet

     

    That’s far enough, I yell across the dry
    riverbed where twigs shoot up between rocks
    with leaves like mistaken tenses: was, were,
    watch. That’s far enough—wrenching
    the children from their …

  • The Takeaway

    Art Can Create Connection in Contentious Times

    The “Arts in Times of Crises” Conference Considered How Artists and Cultural Leaders Can Break Through Our Polarizing Moment

    by Jackie Mansky |

    Leading voices in the arts from around the world convened in Los Angeles recently to take part in “Arts in Times of Crises,” a two-day conference on the role of …

  • The Takeaway

    ‘AI Is Nothing Without Us’

    Panelists for ‘Is AI the End of Creativity—Or a New Beginning?’ Find the Emerging Technology at Odds With the Creative Economy

    by Talib Jabbar |

    Last week, the board of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI fired its CEO, Sam Altman, only to reinstate him days later—an ouster/“inster” that left many questioning the leadership, safety risks, and oversight of …

  • Sketchbook

    Inkblot Explosion

    June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, designer, and teacher who lives in Millbrook, New York. A co-founder of the Wyoming Art Party, her practice is a marriage of the work she …

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