Chloe Wise’s Artistic Exploration of the Supernatural
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Chloe Wise’s Artistic Exploration of the Supernatural
HUR Reads is our definitive shortlist of the most prominent articles from around the web.
By HURS Team
1
Gertrude Abercrombie: Good Witch of the American Absurd
Gertrude Abercrombie’s eerie, meticulously composed paintings are having a well-deserved moment. The New York Times explores two Milwaukee Art Museum exhibitions that reposition the self-described “good witch” within American modernism, tracing her uncanny interiors, symbolic still lifes, and dreamlike landscapes. Rather than offering escape, Abercrombie’s surreal worlds reveal the peculiar strangeness already lurking within everyday life.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Canadian artist Chloe Wise trades paintings for film in Extrasensory, her ambitious Basel exhibition exploring belief, UFO folklore, and humanity’s impulse to explain the inexplicable. Frieze follows Wise as she dismantles the myths surrounding both the supernatural and her own public persona, revealing an artist whose wit and cultural fluency run far deeper than appearances suggest.
FRIEZE
Novelist Megan Nolan examines how GLP-1 medications are transforming far more than waistlines. Through conversations with users and reflections on her own relationship with fitness and body image, she explores the changing ideals of beauty, the morality attached to weight loss, and the increasingly blurred line between the natural and the engineered. It's a thoughtful reflection on identity and what it means to feel at home in your own body.
HOW TO SPEND IT
French-Cuban twins Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz have entered a new chapter. In conversation with Gemma Samways, the Ibeyi musicians discuss Offering, their first independently released album, and the shift from manifestation to surrender that shaped its creation. Weaving Yoruba spirituality with Afro-Cuban rhythms, the pair reflect on artistic independence, vulnerability, and why trusting each other's distinct creative instincts resulted in their most adventurous record to date.
ANOTHER MAGAZINE
Long overlooked, French writer Hélène Bessette continues to find new readers with the English publication of Twenty Minutes of Silence. In The Paris Review, Kathryn Scanlan explores the radical novelist's "poetic novel," whose fractured voices and refusal of conventional narrative transform a real-life murder into something stranger. The result is a compelling argument for Bessette as one of the twentieth century's most formally daring and underappreciated literary innovators.