RQ Vol. 2 // Issue 4 // RENAISSANCE
RQ Vol. 2 // Issue 4 // RENAISSANCE
Will our one-year pandemic anniversary be a renaissance of some sort for thinking about art, cities, and communities? How are we experiencing time now that many of us are working and living in the same space, still disconnected from “normal” life? And does polarized, biased media change the story of our lives and times?
RENAISSANCE
OPENING SALVO
“Moonshots” // Editor’s Notes // by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
STREETVIEW
Destination // “The Keys to the Kingdom” // REC Philly, a support system for creatives, is going national
Recommendation // “Don’t Call It a Comeback” // Philly’s print renaissance has the power of the people
Constellations // “A Shop For Every Block, A Book For Every Shelf” // Amazon can’t compete with the indies that feed our souls
ART & IDEAS
Culture Files // “No Gods No Masters” // Our new media landscape is the Wild West. Should we really be pinning sheriff’s badges on anyone? by Walter Foley Photos by Ford Fisher
Poetry // “The Happy Uncertain Worried Feeling” // On Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh and Shane McCrae by Poetry Editor Joshua Mehigan
Portrait // ‘The Strange Stories That Bodies Tell You’ // An abstract plague portrait of the artist Michael Grimaldi in the shadow of The Decameron words by Michael Grimaldi and Heather Shayne Blakeslee • Images by Michael Grimaldi
Essay // “Meeting The Moment” // Can we please get visionary about cities? by Lauren Earline Leonard • Illustration by Christopher Spencer
SWITCHBACKS
Essay // “From Fear to Fearless” // The Long Road to Teddy by Sarah Maeillano • Illustration by Hannah Taylor
Artist Spotlights // Hannah Taylor & Eric Remer