Articles Written By Nicole Pasulka
TMN Editor Nicole Pasulka believes she could beat a lie detector. When she sits in a chair she almost never puts her feet on the floor. Even though she likes the internet a lot, she is convinced that people will always read magazines and she is secretly building one in her basement.
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The Real Tinsel
Dwayne Moser creates backdrops of infamous scenes involving celebrities. Built by backdrop artists from photos Moser takes of the sites, these paintings ask whether public figures have private lives anymore, or are even their most personal moments up for grabs?
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Sweet Medicine
Drex Brooks photographs historical sites where conflict between Native Americans and white settlers occurred. The stillness of these overgrown or repopulated sites reminds us of what’s been forgotten and what’s missing.
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Neighbors
Ever wondered what the neighbors are doing over there? From 2007, inspired by curiosity and meticulous scale models, Amy Bennett’s paintings imagine what’s happening on the other side of the fence.
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Love Hotels
Unlike the dank motels where Americans allegedly seek anonymous sex, Japan’s love hotels are playful and unapologetically sexual. Photographer Misty Keasler shows the humor, desire, and even the loneliness of these empty rooms.
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Pathology of Glamour
In an art world filled with bright lights that quickly fade, Marilyn Minter’s work, although jaw-droppingly sensational, radiates endurance, rendering our flaws fashionable and making glamour dirty.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
For anyone who has eaten the whole box, or bag, or carton the photographs in this series make light of our secret binges. Here, the consequences of indulgence are tabloid or monster movie deaths.
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Los Angeles
These photos tell the story of Adam Bartos’s move to L.A. in the 1970s, when he arrived expecting Hollywood glitz and glamour and instead discovered the serene and all-American images in this series.
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Mexico
These are photos of your grandmother’s winter holiday. They document your cousin’s spring break—minus the bikinis and beer bongs. But Martin Parr’s photos of Mexico are not the pictures one brings back from a trip. Instead, this work seems like memories of a visit.
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Breakthrew
Can warm colors and personal crisis be political? Can drawings cure artist’s block? Tom Burckhardt burns, drowns, and mourns the canvas—but never paints on it.
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Lights in the Dark
As a street artist, Dan Witz lends wit, color, and grace to New York City. As an oil painter, he seduces outsiders into warm homes and lit storefronts.
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American Cities
Catherine Opie photographs the backbone and the marrow of American cities. These portraits show not only a city’s architecture, but its character.
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Light Years
You feel like you’ve seen Gerald Förster’s work before. It’s filled with people who seem legendary. But these photographs, shot in locations across the globe in a portable studio, have never been possible until now.