Counter Arts

Grow and digest: why hurry when you can rest?

Finding new relevance in a long-ago photo project

A demolition of the male gaze and an aesthetic portrayal of freedom

Understanding the use of nature and man-made structures to explore the role of society in stigmatising queer love

Don’t let one bad apple turn the whole world sour

Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a gruelling but rewarding experience

The confusion regarding modern Art.

With ‘28 Years Later’ finally hitting theaters this week, it’s time to look back at this franchise’s bizarre history

Ugly ceramics are a thing

In her literary debut, the author lays bare the protagonist, trapped in a toxic relationship that humiliates and degrades her, reducing her…

The Disney film has become a clear example of one of the great evils of our society today: toxicity on social media.

Five more life drawings of one-hit wonders

What the latest box office battle tells us about the future

An illustrated guide to my sad Monday

Book recommendations to make you laugh, cry, and escape reality

I mean every word of that title.

8 reasons curiosity will set you free

Belle da Costa Greene led a unique and conflicted life, a Black woman in a white early 20th-century world of wealth and glitz

A Passion of and for the people?

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ and the mythologies of human intimacy in space

Abel Tesfaye / The Weeknd’s 2025 film goes deeper than critics expected — and they weren’t ready for it.

When you play a song so many times that Iggy Pop calls you “nuts”.

‘Ballerina’ has moments of excitement and quality, but one can’t shake the feeling that we’ve seen all of this before…

The UCLA Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health discusses pandemics, Covid and bird flu, and…