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We Call It the American War

2 weeks ago | family.style | Terry Nguyen |Meka Boyle |Morgan Becker

For years, I have refused to watch American-made films on the Vietnam War. I still haven’t seen Apocalypse Now (1979) or Platoon (1986) or Full Metal Jacket (1987), canonical works that are, so I am told, “important” and “great.” This is not to protest these films and their makers, or reject the authenticity of their stories, their right to be told.
An Old El Paso Chili

Feb 3, 2025 | family.style | Terry Nguyen |Magdalena O'Neal |Jane Lewis

When it comes to Larry Bell, the Taos- and Venice-based artist is best known for his contributions to the Light and Space movement and his striking sculptures, installations, and mixed-media works. Yet his innovative, and idiosyncratic approach follows over to his chili verde recipe. “Make it exactly as the recipe is written, then eat this chilli!” Bell instructs. The artist’s materials of choice? El Paso green chilis, spanish onions, and lean-cut pork.
Family Style - Poetic Defiance

Feb 3, 2025 | family.style | Osman Can Yerebakan |Terry Nguyen |Magdalena O'Neal |Jane Lewis

Time and timelessness are entangled in artist Laurent Grasso’s moody environments. The Parisian painter and filmmaker’s paintings and multimedia work embody a poetic detachment, featuring both topographies of a remote past and alarms of a near future. “I try to create places with invisible power and radiation,” he tells Family Style.
The Sacred is Everywhere

Feb 3, 2025 | family.style | Joshua Glass |Terry Nguyen |Magdalena O'Neal |Jane Lewis

“I have eight sisters,” says Theaster Gates as he takes a seat, “so I’m always thinking of them.” We’re in a cylindrical chamber, and the artist is on the second of three brown sugar oatmeal-colored rows. A dramatic skylight pulls reminders of the harsh Abu Dhabi sun just above us into the cave-like space, and a gradient violet backdrop behind us contrasts the dark domestic carpet, forming a scene that is inconceivably beautiful in a language that only Prada can articulate.
The Sound of Soul

Feb 3, 2025 | family.style | Magdalena O'Neal |Terry Nguyen |Jane Lewis |Osman Can Yerebakan

Soul music is a force that shoots off in every direction, landing deep in the heart of the believing listener, the dancer, and the D.J., reverberating in the bass that shakes the floorboards. Like the comforting taste of a bowl of gumbo, soul music nourishes the heart. As a chef, I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between food and music, especially ours in Black culture. They both carry a deep connection to our history rooted in resistance, expression, and joy.
When a Townhouse Renovation Raises Questions About a City’s Future

Oct 6, 2024 | curbed.com | Terry Nguyen

Mamoudou Athie, Téa Guarino, Khris Davis, and Susan Kelechi Watson in the New York premiere production of Good Bones, by James Ijames and directed by Saheem Ali. The audience’s first glimpse of the set of Good Bones, James Ijames’s new Off Broadway play at the Public, is obscured by a curtain of translucent plastic, the workaday material of any home renovation, hung to contain dust and fumes.
The Thorny Elisions of Catalina Ouyang's "Trick"

Jun 7, 2024 | aaartsalliance.org | Terry Nguyen |Mimi Wong |Amanda Chen

“Trick,” Catalina Ouyang’s third solo show at Lyles and King, is an uncanny landscape of pathologies, bodies, perversities, and forms. A wooden figure contorts its torso into an intestine, folding over a tall heeled stem of a leg. Glass tubes lay stuffed with tulle-like fabric, evocative of disembodied legs left on an operating table. An animal trap is twisted into a gnarled starfish, its exoskeleton a filmy vellum canvas.