This has been a terribly sad week. Now departed are individuals who have broadened the culture while making their individual marks. Of these, the passing of artist Yayoi Kusama at 97 hits closest to me.… Read More »The Daily Heller: My Brush With Kusama, Revisited
The self-taught Johannesburg painter borrows the language of 17th-century still life and fills it with Rubik’s cubes, Coke bottles, and PlayStation controllers, plucked from your childhood bedroom in the early 2000s. The 2000s seem to… Read More »Matthew Blackburn gives PS1 controllers and Froot Loops the old-master treatment
I skipped GTA 5 on purpose because it never let me play as a woman. Thirteen years later, Rockstar has finally fixed that (sort of). And after 26 minutes of in-game footage, I’m booking the… Read More »What GTA 6’s Extended Look tells us about Vice City, Lucia, and the biggest creative launch of the decade
With summer coming to an end, as a celebration of Maine’s Camp Kieve 100th anniversary, Maine Public Television is airing Neo-Typesetters, an award-winning documentary short that explores the camp’s role in preserving typesetting as a… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Little Printing Press That Could
From terrace flags to the humble bar glass, the São Paulo illustrator draws the everyday life of Brazil he grew up in – and now Nike has come calling. Gabriel Diogo was born and raised… Read More »Gabriel Diogo on football, memory, and the warm colours of Brazil’s backyards
Yesterday, we heard the devastating news that Dolly Parton had passed away at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Dolly was a legend—an artist, songwriter, philanthropist, and, above all, an incredibly… Read More »Dolly Parton’s Love For All Things Printed