The Good Earth: Lita Albuquerque, Art’s Cosmic Explorer, Comes Home
THE ARTIST LITA ALBUQUERQUE’S PATH has taken her to the ends of the Earth — from a convent in Tunisia to the pyramids of Egypt; from the salt flats of Bolivia to the polar ice shelf of Antarctica, where she spent over a month in residence at a space station. In these and other far-flung... More
The Secret Growing: On the New Spiritual Art Canon
IN OCTOBER 2022, I received an invitation to celebrate the Scorpio new moon eclipse with a group of creative women. The invitation was illustrated with a 1915 painting by the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 14—a rainbow sphere with a white center against a black background, astrological glyphs in each corner.... More
The Casita on Calle Colima: Reflections on a shape-shifting Mexico City
“HERMOSA CASITA EN LA COLONIA ROMA,” read the listing that popped up on Airbnb when I was searching for a rental in Mexico City in the spring of 2022. The main image showed an elegant, periwinkle-blue row house with white trim, beside an identical house painted deep indigo and another, bubblegum pink. Potted plants and... More
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New L.A.
FIFTY YEARS AGO, on November 22nd, 1963, in his home at the top of Mulholland Highway beneath the first “O” in the Hollywood sign, the British author, psychedelic pioneer and visionary thinker Aldous Huxley lost his three-year battle with cancer. Per his written request, Huxley’s second wife, Laura, injected him with a dose of liquid... More