Christopher Alessandrini

Beyond the Skin

In his collaged deities, Felipe Baeza fuses diverse iconographies into a new religion.

Occasional Residences of the Gods

The artist Gala Porras-Kim has become an eloquent advocate for sacred objects in ethnographic collections. Will museums listen?

The Paintings of Louis Fratino

The type of boy in Louis Fratino’s paintings seems both ordinary and timeless, fellow subway passenger and saint, superficially of the moment but rooted, also, in a deeper, stranger classicism.

Graciela Iturbide, Visionary Ethnographer

The dark ballast of Iturbide’s photography is a deep knowledge of predation: how humans prey on animals; how modern industry exploits a largely indigenous underclass; how artists wrangle life from their subjects in the name of creation.