Beyond the Neo-Imperial Politicizing of Object Repatriation: Restitution and the Question of Decolonization

Restitution, diplomacy, and cultural reunion

Nicole Miller: Brilliant in the Here and Now

Nicole Miller’s Ecstatic Translation

Image of the cover of A History of Arab Graphic Design

A Kaleidoscopic Overview of Graphic Design from the Arab World

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès reviews

A Small Matter of Agency

Anthony Gardner reviews two new anthologies

SCAB: Honoring the Memory of Mr. Fred Rouse

Will Wilson and Adam W. McKinney rethink anti-Black terror and photography in a new artists’ project

A large-scale installation resembling the Hollywood sign but spelling out “INDIANLAND,” by artist Nicholas Galanin, installed among boulders with desert mountains in the background.

X Marks the Land

Emily Eliza Scott reviews the outdoor exhibition Desert X

Photograph of a screening room with an image on screen of a close up face of a person with a tear falling from one eye, looking directly outward.

A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History

Recent texts in trans studies

How has the past year's quarantine affected your professional life?

The Quarantine Question

AJO readers respond to the pandemic in words, sound, and images

On the left, a woman in three-quarters view with crossed wrists holds a roll of toilet paper. She wears a toilet paper headdress and make-up to resemble Bernhard Strigel's Portrait of Martha Thannstetter. On the right is Strigel's actual painting, showing a woman in three-quarters view with crossed wrists holds a scroll. She wears a cloth headdress that covers her hair.

The Art of the COVID Copy

The practice of re-creating masterworks goes viral

The Aesthetics of Torture: Listening to Abu Zubaydah’s Interrogation Drawings

Deciphering testimonials of violence from Guantánamo Bay

Digital collage including a pair of staged, black-and-white, 19th-century photographs of a young Indigenous boy before and after being assimilated at a Canadian residential school. The image is overlaid with contemporary anticolonial writing.

The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability, and the Politics of Redress

Artist Chris Bose underscores the impacts of Canadian settler-colonialism, both past and present

Collage with forty dried rose petals glued to paper with handwritten notes by the artist

Rosa enferma, Together Apart

Kaira M. Cabañas considers our vulnerable yet resilient social relations in a time of pandemic, through the lens of a work by Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón