PHOTO | BRUT

By Lyle Rexer

FEB 2021 | ArtSeen

Is there such a thing as outsider photography? The term “outsider” has come to mean either self-taught, outside the art establishment or, in the more extreme version, cut off from many forms of social intercourse by mental illness or incarceration.

David Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings

By Marcia E. Vetrocq

FEB 2019 | ArtSeen

In the course of fifty years of exhibiting his art, David Rabinowitch has come to be known for his rigorous empiricism, flinty intelligence, and serial investigations into the organizing operations of perception.

Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989

By Lynn Maliszewski

JUNE 2019 | Art Books

These fissures guide our reading of Steidl’s 509-page compilation. Eight essays, written in Czech and in English, outline the entanglement between political compulsions and images published in a nation consistently redefining itself throughout the twentieth century.

Azu Tiwaline and Her Saharan Electro-Dub Pulse

By Martin Longley

FEB 2021 | Music

Tiwaline is primarily beat orientated, with percussion usually to the fore, a bass thrum acting like a magnified frame drum interior. She often chooses a portentous mood-construction, with swirling soundscapes, sometimes scattered with metal percussion, or marimba sounds, perhaps with a wooden flute swirling to evoke a desert trance state.