Robert Blanchon: AIDS and the Question of Conceptualism

Subjectivity, conceptual expression, and AIDS imagery in the work of Robert Blanchon

Feminist Interview Project: Michal Heiman in Conversation with Gil Z. Hochberg

The Feminist Interview Project speaks with pioneering multidisciplinary artist Michal Heiman.

Floor-to-ceiling glass columns containing melt ice removed from Icelandic glaciers, from Vatnasafn/Library of Water located in Stykkisholmur, Iceland, 2007

The 2023 Year in Review on Art Journal Open

A Look Back at 2023’s Most-Read Posts from Art Journal Open

A left arm holding an armchair that appears to be upholstered with human skin. A pillow with rare black hairs decorates the armchair. In actuality these objects are made of clay, bearing the imprint of the artist's own skin.

Ruptured Envelopes, Double Shells: Skins in Art in the Age of Global Mobility

Hava Aldouby on the presence and meaning of skin in the art of the early twenty-first century.

Introducing Grace Aneiza Ali—AJO’s New Editor-in-Chief

A short interview with our new editor

A montage of images on a black background.

Through the Guillotine Mirror: Claude Cahun’s Theory of Trans against the Void

Investigating the gender-transgressing work of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Sensing, Sensitizing, and Speculating: The Work of Artworks in the Climate Crisis Era

Nicole Seymour reviews a new volume on art in the time of climate change

Photograph of green tropical forest with circular collage cutouts of high-rise buildings in Chicago (left) and Singapore (right). Colorful lines intersect at the center of the image.

Peripatetic in the Pandemic

Taking an intercontinental sound walk through the pandemic

Warriors and Volunteers: A Review of George W. Bush, Portraits of Courage

In a new essay, Melissa Warak reviews Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, an exhibition of the paintings of George W. Bush

Decentering Land Art from the Borderlands: A Review of Through the Repellent Fence

The 2017 film Through the Repellent Fence looks at Postcommodity’s practice and its relation to and divergences from Land art traditions. Emily Eliza Scott explores the film and the role of art along the US-Mexico border

Warm, Wet, Cold, Dry: Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–1979

By Charissa Terranova

Charissa Terranova discusses the exhibition and catalogue, Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–1979, which was on view at the Tate Britain from April 12–August 29, 2016

Between Negative Dialectics and Biological Aesthesis

By Charissa Terranova

Charissa Terranova reviews Wetware: Art, Agency, Animation, which was on view at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine, from February 6–May 7, 2016.