Color photograph of forty clay pots arranged in a circle. A woman dressed in black sits in the middle of the circle. In her left hand, she holds a broken clay pot.

Going Backward to Move Forward: Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Boreth Ly on Traces of Trauma

Two scholars discuss the place of personal history in the field

Detail of a book spread from Imaginary Explosions, page 35. Above black-and-white graphic of mountain topography, text reads, “This distance I arranged so you would not have so far to fall to Earth.”

Fault Lines and Fractures: A Conversation about Imaginary Explosions

Is there life after annihilation?

An art installation constructed of vertical metal studs and mic stands, intertwined with black electrical cables

Barricades of Silence: Nikita Gale in Conversation with Jesús Fuenmayor

Exploring space, sound, and radical silence in installation art

Stanford Express Care nurse Anna Chico, her head and body hidden behind layers of protective gear, wears a smiling portrait affixed over her heart so that people arriving at the COVID-19 testing clinic can see an image of her face

Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

The PPE Portrait Project builds trust between patients and health-care workers during COVID-19

exterior of three tiered metal cladding with Washington monument

Just Being

Art historians Risham Majeed and Blake Bradford offer a proxy visit to three still-new sites dedicated to African American history

In Tehran: A Conversation with Iranian Gallerists

This roundtable conversation among Iranian gallerists, available in English and in Persian, explores the politics and particularities of gallery ownership in Tehran

Exhibition Situations: Allyson Purpura in Conversation with Elizabeth Rodini

Elizabeth Rodini discusses World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts across the Indian Ocean with one of the exhibition’s curators, Allyson Purpura. The conversation focuses on object kinship and adjacency, a strategy that enables a resistance to “the stasis and fixity of exhibitions”

Caitlin Masley-Charlet in Conversation with Elisabeth Smolarz

Caitlin Masley-Charlet sits down with artist Elisabeth Smolarz to discuss Smolarz’s recent residencies and projects, and the importance of failure, artistic community, and cross-pollination between practitioners

Exchange: Geeta Kapur, Saloni Mathur, and Rachel Weiss

Geeta Kapur puts forth a thirteen-part text, “Proposition Avant-Garde: A View from the South,” with critical responses by Saloni Mathur and Rachel Weiss

Exhibition Situations: Risham Majeed in Conversation with Elizabeth Rodini

By Risham Majeed and Elizabeth Rodini
Risham Majeed and Elizabeth Rodini discuss Majeed’s exhibition Made to Move: African Nomadic Design, the museological and curatorial challenges posed by the exhibition’s material, and the possibility of a decolonized museum space

Scripting A Smeary Spot

By A.K. Burns and Melissa Ragain

In this annotated commentary, artist A.K. Burns and art historian and critic Melissa Ragain explore the script, performances, and citations in Burn’s video installation A Smeary Spot (2015), which is the first episode in her five-part Negative Space film cycle

Community and Creativity at Residencies Near and Far: Chad Stayrook in Conversation with Caitlin Masley-Charlet

By Caitlin Masley-Charlet

Caitlin Masley-Charlet speaks with artist Chad Stayrook about his experiences at artist residencies around the world, the effects that residencies have had his artistic practice, and the development of Present Company, the artist-run space in Brooklyn that he cofounded