PRE-ORDER: Topical Cream Issue No.1: Lumi Tan, Polycrisis

Curated by 2025 Editor-in-Residence Lum Tan, the 144-page, full-color magazine brings together ten critical essays, exhibition reviews, and artist interviews that draw on the conceptual underpinnings of performance and time-based art to ask what it means to find comfort in the pleasures of cadence and digression in a time of polycrisis.

Contributing Writers: Kathy Cho, Tess Edmonson, Mariana Fernández, Alessandra Gómez, May Makki, Seta Morton, Madeleine Seidel, Diana SeoHyung, Allie Tepper, Wendy Vogel

Featured Artists: Indira Allegra, Leo Amino, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Whitney Claflin, Women’s History Museum, Zorica Čolić, Blondell Cummings, Pan Daijing, Olivia Drusin, Leandra Espírito Santo, Karen Finley, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Eva Hesse, Cindy Hill, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Amando Houser, Juliana Huxtable, Rosalie Smith, Tao Siqi, Jack Whitten

Photography: Jen Bootwala, Tom Cogill, Rob Davidson, Lois Greenfield, Rachel Keane, Sarah Mathison, Eric Mueller, Kei Orihara, Steven Paneccasio, Yulu Serao, Midge Wattles & Ariel Ione Williams, Lyndsy Welgos, Walter Wlodarczyk, Alex Yudzon

Makeup, Hair, and Styling: Tomomi Gonzalez, quori theodor

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