From Charters to Traffic Jams: How Cultural Value Shifts When Competence Is Cheap
As reports from Fast Company and Nature frame the shrinking value of average-quality work, institutions from the BBC to Netflix revisit which metrics matter, while Detroit’s symphony and Bristol Old Vic retrench and Nairobi’s acrobats turn gridlock into a stage.
Painterly Reliefs, Stitched from Loom Bands: Hannah Beuchler’s Tactile Compositions
Artist Hannah Beuchler reimagines loom bands as painterly reliefs, looping thousands of rubber bands onto wool roving on felt substrates to create framed works that read like expressive brushstrokes. Recent pieces from 2024–2025 range from 26.75 x 19.75 inches to 77 x 72.5 x 2 inches, with photos by Spencer Higgins.
Double Moons and Borderlands: Anna Ortizs Shapeshifter in Tribeca
In Shapeshifter, Anna Ortiz draws on Mexican-American heritage and Mesoamerican nagual lore to paint jungle terrains in concentrated blues, greens, and pinks, populated by double moons, an explosive volcano, and reflective pools. The exhibition is on view through October 31 at Chart Gallery in Tribeca and echoes Gloria Anzald fa40afs 1992 essay The New Mestiza Nation.