The NewCrits Podcast

She builds archives, conjures futures, and questions everything. Tamika Abaka-Wood on ritual, refusal, and the joy of cultural strategy.

Tamika Abaka-Wood is a cultural anthropologist, conceptual stra…

He paints exhaustion, desire, and the ghosts of modern life—Aaron Gilbert on how to stay human in a fractured world

Aaron Gilbert is a painter whose work bridges the mythic and the domestic, capturing…

NewCrits provides one-on-one studio visits, portfolio reviews, and mentorship with some of the world's most visionary artists.

This week on NewCrits, we sit down with artist and educator Sagarika Sund…

A BDSM dungeon for alchemist Bitcoin investors. A druid hideaway in the abandoned Palo Alto headquarters of the corporation Theranos. A crossover between Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones where Walter…

I met Steve this past summer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where we were both resident faculty. I quickly fell in love with his wit (biting), his work (also biting), and his tendernes…

Hey everyone, Welcome to the third episode of the NewCrits Podcast with me, Ajay Kurian. This month, I interviewed Jamian Juliano Villani.  We recorded this live at O’Flaherty’s, a gallery Jamian sta…

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr is an artist who uses photography to explore representation through privacy and fiction. Sometimes his images work towards the mysteries a person can hold. Other times, they m…

Ser Serpas was born in 1995 in Los Angeles, California and lives and works in New York. Primarily interested in death and legacy, her work is preoccupied with its own urgency in the face of fossiliza…