Sons of the Nation

By María Iñigo Clavo

FEB 2021 | Critics Page

We can think of the nation as akin to a narcissistic father figure that hopes to see his image, feats and aspirations reflected in the citizens

Mark Thomas Gibson: WHIRLYGIG!

By William Corwin

MARCH 2023 | ArtSeen

Mark Thomas Gibson’s work has always expressed a hope that the citizenry of the nation will embrace a reasonable and diplomatic means of negotiation towards a harmonious co-existence, but in WHIRLYGIG! he acknowledges that political realities may lie elsewhere.

The Art of Eliminating a Nation

By Shir Mohammad Karimi

NOV 2021 | Critics Page

What a pain to hear a young woman cry, a thousand wishes gone. A child weeps for the father he has lost. These children did not choose where to be born. And yet, here we are. They are paying the biggest cost for this war of the world. To be witness to the explosion of a bomb in front of the girl’s school; one can never imagine. Their only crime was the desire to learn. This picture should be a source of shame for the world; it is a pure pain for us.

Dear Friends and Readers

By Phong Bui

MARCH 2023 | Publisher's Message

Many of us may still remember how the great Athenian statesman Pericles proposed to melt the gold from the statue of Athena, patron goddess of the city, when the war against Sparta was exhausting all of Athens’s funds. Which leads us to think about how a symbol can elicit such strong emotional responses from the nation’s citizens when it is at the risk of being desecrated.