The artist known as Knox the Dog just dropped a mixtape tailored to sync with the 1988 sci-fi epic Akira and it could scarcely arrive at a better time. Anime and electronica fans have been starved for diversion since the pandemic hit, and Knox’s new release, Akita, brings the sustenance they crave. Akira, the landmark […]
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The Figure in Balance
Balance has got a couple of meanings,” Steven Vander Meer remarked, regarding the drawings he had made. “Bodies balance. Stones balance. And there’s another kind of balance in these compositions.” Vander Meer’s new show at Piante Gallery explores balance from multiple angles. A polygonal sandbox hosts precarious looking stacks of vertically balanced stones. Figure drawings […]