Stories and Pictures: Charlotte Burns in Conversation with Naomi Beckwith
In a new recurring feature for Ursula magazine, Charlotte Burns talks with curators about how they are adapting to the current climate.
May 14, 2020
Kept under the eyelids: A portfolio of drawings by Erna Rosenstein (1913 – 2004)
Portfolios
Erna Rosenstein was an artist, writer and poet born in Lviv, a city that was located in Poland during her youth and is now in Ukraine. She was raised in Kraków,...
May 28, 2020
Symbolic Soldiers: Through images, a feminist artist addresses her male offspring
The Keepers
I am often asked, as an artist and as a feminist who has contended with motherhood in my work, to hold forth on what it is like to have two sons. The question is...
May 13, 2020
'Monsters Exist Because We Create Them': Turning to Leon Golub in a Time of Crisis
Essay
There is no way to write without writing about the pandemic. Everything is colored by malaise. An online article tells me that my untranslatable feelings about...
This is not a photograph
Essay
Between December 1929 and February 1930, the Belgian poet and artist Paul Nougé, using an ordinary cheap camera, took a set of 19 photographs that, when...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Portfolios
One of the first things that you draw as a child are trees. The unsteady lines on the paper find a structure in the form of a tree. A line topped with a circle...
Mussolini’s Microphone: A conversazione between Maurizio Cattelan and Fabio Mauri
In Conversation
In a career that lasted more than half a century, Fabio Mauri, one of the most prominent members of the postwar Italian avant-garde, used his drawings,...
Bibliotheca Hermetica: Mario Diacono and the arts of alchemy
The Keepers
Poet, essayist and gallerist Mario Diacono, on the cusp of his 90th year, has led one of the most unusual lives in postwar contemporary art, beginning with his...
