Impressions of the campaign and the six principal candidates for mayor of Jersey City The image is by Matt Gabel. The opinions are by me. I have always considered it a monstrous act of arrogance to vote for candidates for office because they  agreed with me . Who am I? I’m barely representative of anything. My political positions are exactly what you think they’d be given my background, my occupation, and my place on the globe. We wouldn’t want to be governed by people like m

Prismatic experiments in scene-building and radiant urbanism from two energetic optimists Windows on the world: Allan Gorman in the city Pity poor paper. It really wants to be glass. Ditto for canvas. It isn’t glass, either, and it rankles at its own opacity. Sometimes it feels like the entire reason painters add brilliant pigment to panels is to help stiff surfaces achieve the peaceable qualities of a windowpane. Glass doesn’t fight the light. It acquiesces to its demands fo

NJCU revives a show from the 1990s to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima — and to make a few frightening points In the soup: Nagasawa's explosive stack. It says something about the amount of peril in today’s world that nuclear holocaust has lost ground to other horsemen of the apocalypse. Pandemics, environmental collapse, fascist ascendancies and the spread of carceral states: they haven’t chase the mushroom cloud from our nightmares, but they’ve eaten into its apocalyptic