Heavyweight Paint

Race and justice in America are inextricably linked.

Conveying an Iraqi tragedy through form, motion, and sound.

Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez explores queer identity in rural Tennessee.

The mixed-material artist on the catharsis of Korean shamanism and why “the process of purification” is her natural subject matter.

The multiform artist creates mixed-material worlds from ceramics, drawing, and photography.

The Argentine muralist on using the city as a canvas.

Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole collaborate on an ekphrastic project exploring how Cole’s paired images intersect with the works of artists ranging from Sontag to Singh.

Imagine what George & Co. could have done with the internet. Or not.

Jonny Negron speaks about drawing characters of eroticism, mythology, and contemporary fashion.

Jacolby Satterwhite on rendering his mother’s drawings into worlds of their own.

Alarmed to the eviction in advance, photographers Matt Lutton and Darko Stanimirovic distributed disposable cameras so that the residents could document their own dispossession.

David Joselit theorizes about the function of art in the global age of abstracted value and Art Basel

Guernica’s art editor, Noah Rabinowitz, and photographer John Francis Peters discuss what they saw while working on and off assignment in the days after Hurricane Sandy.

Michael Kirby Smith’s unprecedented and intimate look into Yemen

Seventeen years after the Yugoslav wars, large swaths of land in Bosnia are still riddled with active land mines.

Kelly K. Jones’s work explores the boundary between documentary and conceptual ways of image making.

Equipped with a mirror, painter’s easel, a camera, and his formal training in biology, scientist-turned-artist Daniel Kukla explores where the low Sonoran Desert meets the high Mojave.

Avoiding the simplistic narratives of Afro-pessimism and Afro-optimism, photographer Peter diCampo uses photo-apps to represent everyday Africa.

Daniel Shea’s series “Blisner, Ill.” portrays the crises of titanic mythologies.

Israeli-born sculptor Tomer Sapir—a “crypto-taxidermist” of creatures that have never walked this earth—surveys the borderlands of technology and nightmare.

Making music in war-torn Eastern Congo

Exploring minority religions in Poland, Katarzyna Majak’s images probe prejudice against witchery, questions of aging, and feminine divinity.

Photographer Julien Chatelin’s images capture Egypt’s surreal and absurd rural landscape; a road that leads to nowhere.

Art and programming converge in Kynd’s digital brushstrokes

Sebastian Black and Cole Sayer discuss CGI, the NFL, and the mythology surrounding being a painter.

Painter Sangram Majumdar invites Guernica to his studio to view a few in-progress paintings and learn about his process.

Peter Hoffman documents an Illinois home that helps refugees take the next step towards establishing a stable new life in the U.S.

Through YouTube and Vimeo, these artists give their fellow Syrians a voice.

Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images

Photographer Philip Scott Andrews intimately documents the final flights of the Space Shuttle

Photographer Jim Korpi finds dependent self-reliance, rusted preservation, artificial heritage, and burdened faith along the Ohio River.

Foreign photographs of Baghdad usually have three subjects: guns, bombs, and pickup trucks. Marieke van der Velden shows us what happens when the camera turns a few degrees away.

Alone together in the metropolis

In Russian, a language in which there is a separate word for everything, the word “country” means both the territory and the government.

Clothes make a life.

Against all rules, competitive species engage in quasi-natural acts that involve complex relays of communication.

A selection of work from the 2011 Lagos Photo Festival by forty photographers from around the world.

The grandson of a Holocaust survivor visits the town that was home to Auschwitz.

In these photographs, a series of linked histories are forced together in Utah’s deserted Bonneville Salt Flats.

A photographer finds accidental sculpture throughout India’s Tamil Nadu.

The artist’s installations of shrines in Manhattan’s East Village honor people who lived and died in the neighborhood.

An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.

Reframing Victorian aesthetics.

Imagining the war before the war.

A series of photographs in which, under hypnosis, subjects are instructed to experience the most beautiful landscape imaginable.

This geologic boundary has no regard for political allegiance; it was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation.

In each image I’ve incorporated myself twice, once as the Iranian and once as the American.

In the mountains of rural Mexico, a photographer documents the space between staying and going.

Two photographers illuminate the effects of migration in a rural village and one’s own body.