The pomp and pageantry of King Charles’s coronation follows the playbook of authoritarian theatrics.
Isabella Segalovich
Isabella Segalovich is a Philadelphia-based artist, designer, writer, and TikTokker. Her work focuses on anti-authoritarian art history, on topics such as cultural appropriation and erasure, the racism ingrained in modern design, and underappreciated art forms such as folk art, embroidery, and graffiti. Follow her on TikTok and on Instagram @interstellar_isabellar.
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An Artist’s Wry Satire of Uncle Sam
Ryan Bock appropriates fascist visual motifs to warn viewers against rising authoritarianism and worsening social injustices in the United States.
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Susan Bee Tames the Beast
The artist’s playful paintings of medieval women saints fighting monsters and dragons have a Jewish angle.
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Kate Laster Carves Ancestral Memory Into Paper
“My art is about the people we carry with us,” she told Hyperallergic.
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Queering the Jewish Mikvah
Artist Nicki Green sees the traditional bathing ritual as a site where trans and nonbinary people can embrace their gender identity.
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Getting High With the Rabbi
Glass artist Jeremy Grant-Levine channels Jewish folk tradition through “Rabbi Bongs” and weed-smoking pipes.
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TikTok’s “Corecore” Is Where Men Scream Their Anguish
The trend’s throwback to Dada offers a warning about the crisis of men’s mental health and the rise of the far right.
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The Sesame Street of Art History
Artist Jayson Musson guides a potty-mouthed, weed-obsessed bunny named Ollie through his version of art history.
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Ye’s Critics Got It All Wrong
Treating Kanye West’s latest statements as exceptional, rather than a routine expression of the everyday reality of white supremacy, is only making the problem worse.
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The Artists Amplifying the Voices of Iran’s Protesters
As protests rage across the country following the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, Iranian and Kurdish artists are creating work in support of freedom.
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Jean Shin Wants to Change the Tide of Pollution and Extinction
The artist’s Freshwater installation at Philadelphia Contemporary features a living, breathing fountain, mussels and all.
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Is Bleak the New Look for a TikTok Childhood?
Social media persona Sad Beige Werner Herzog presents a seemingly endless array of sniffling tots stuffed into gray, brown, and tan knits.