Sands Murray-Wassink: In Good Company

By Titus Nouwens

JUNE 2021 | ArtSeen

Over the years Sands has produced an exhaustive amount of paintings, videos, performances, and texts, at once completely and unabashedly about him and at the same time about much more than himself—his loved ones, his fellow artists, the artworld, the role of artists, and patriarchal society at large.

Tender Mafia

By Candice Thompson

DEC 22–JAN 23 | Dance

Monica Mirabile’s all things under dog is a daughter’s love letter to her father and a treatise of care dedicated to her fellow artists.

Homage to Ferl, the Owner of the Building

By Garrett Caples

APRIL 2021 | Poetry

Garrett Caples is a poet and an editor for City Lights Books. His latest book of poems, Lovers of Today, will appear in the fall from Wave Books.

Technical Expertise and Communist Production

By Nick Chavez

DEC 22–JAN 23 | Field Notes

In 1976, the shop stewards at the British Lucas Aerospace Corporation published a document that would come to be known as “The Lucas Plan.” The company was planning to lay off a significant number of workers as part of a restructuring effort. Faced with the prospect of losing their livelihood, many of these workers banded together to propose an alternative: that the British government should intervene to prevent layoffs so that the workers could redeploy the productive assets of the company towards socially useful ends rather than military contracting.