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Music · ColumbusWorking in Death’s Dynamic Shroud over the last few years, Columbus musician Keith Rankin has kept up a staggering pace, every three months recording and releasing a new mixtape as part of the vaporwave trio’s ongoing subscription program. Within this process, though, more pop-leaning songs would occasionally surface that Rankin would set aside, most of which he said were defined by an ineffable quality that he compared with “a bittersweet yearn…Read Article
Keith Rankin continues to build immersive new worlds with Giant Claw – Matter News

Columbus, Ohio · ColumbusPhoto by Jehan Daugherty
When Qamil Wright first started performing years back, she would frequently find herself tormented by a running inner-monologue. She would worry her hair and makeup were out of place, stress that the facial contortions present in the act of singing might read as less than flattering to people in the audience, and linger on the potential for mistakes as she neared those particularly vocally challenging passages. “In thos…Read Article
Qamil Wright finds her place of comfort – Matter News

Gaza · Gaza“Against Forgetting: Anfal Genocide,” by Sahar Tarighi A pair of exhibitions opened at Urban Arts Space this week are divided by a border, of sorts, with “Fragmented-Recaptured” staged in the upper gallery space and “Cartography” stretched throughout the lower gallery. And yet, despite this divide, the two shows tread shared ground, exploring the concept of physical place and the sometimes-catastrophic impacts that geo-political lines can have o…Read Article