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Articles by Barbara Tupova
Janet Werner Transforms Photos of "Perfection" into Layered Images
For decades, Janet Werner has transformed found photographs into fictional women whose identities remain deliberately open. In conversation, she reflects on painting, collage, subjectivity, art history, teaching, and the necessity of simply continuing to work. The first time I saw Janet's paintings in person, I found myself doing something I knew I probably shouldn't: trying to figure out who the women were. Their faces seemed familiar without belonging to anyone I could identify.
Laura Dern on Instinct, Risk and the Career That Followed
Graduating from NYU Tisch in Manhattan's famous Radio City Music Hall already felt slightly unreal. The scale of the space, the ceremonial atmosphere, the transition it represented-it created the strange sensation of standing both inside your own life and outside of it at the same time.
Laura Dern on Instinct, Risk and the Career That Followed
Graduating from NYU Tisch in Manhattan's famous Radio City Music Hall already felt slightly unreal. The scale of the space, the ceremonial atmosphere, the transition it represented-it created the strange sensation of standing both inside your own life and outside of it at the same time.
Opera & Cinema: Telling Frida Kahlo's Story Live in HD
Before the screening began, I realized I was bringing my own history with Frida Kahlo into the theater. As a child, she was one of the first women artists whose work genuinely moved me. I encountered her paintings in museums long before I understood their historical context, and later discovered her life and work through Julie Taymor's 2002 film Frida.
Gala Porras-Kim Teaches Us How to Listen to Objects
When I first began reading about Gala Porras-Kim’s work, I was struck by how quietly it asks for attention. There is nothing flashy or declarative about her practice. Instead, it unfolds slowly, almost patiently, asking us to pause and reconsider the systems we often take for granted—museums, archives, and the institutional frameworks that claim to preserve history. Gala’s work doesn’t reject these spaces outright. Rather, it questions them from within, with care and precision.
MacArthur Genius Ling Ma Reveals the Surreal Logic of Ordinary Life
Reading Ling Ma’s novel Severance (2018), I was struck by how quietly the apocalypse unfolds. There is no single dramatic moment announcing that the world has ended. Instead, the collapse appears gradually through small continuities—people setting tables, commuting to work, performing the same familiar gestures they have always performed. The routines continue even as the world around them begins to empty. That restrained approach feels broadly characteristic of Ling’s writing.
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