Uri McMillan on challenging the prevailing understanding of a universal aesthetic
Category: From Art Journal
Silent Voices and Absent Referents
Maia Toteva reviews Misty Gamble in Lubbock, Texas
“Politics in Matter”: Concrete Expressions in Contemporary Palestinian Art of Resistance
How Palestinian artists in Israel are using concrete to convey struggle, violence, defense, and fear
The Terms of Craft and Other Means of Making: Lee Bontecou’s Hybrid Trajectory
From the AJO Archives revisits this 2012 essay exploring Lee Bontecou’s experimental sculpture technique
Robert Blanchon: AIDS and the Question of Conceptualism
Subjectivity, conceptual expression, and AIDS imagery in the work of Robert Blanchon
Black Op Art
What are Black contemporary artists doing in the face of institutional erasure and neglect?
Small Boats, Slave Ship; or, Isaac Julien and the Beauty of Implied Catastrophe
From the AJO Archives: Emma Chubb discusses art that addresses trans-Mediterranean crossings
Jannis Kounellis: An Epic Journey With No Return
A review of Jannis Kounellis at the Walker Art Center
Race, Whiteness, and Absence in Studio Practice
Artist Ken Gonzales-Day walks us through some of his series and discusses absence, erasure, and critical race visual culture.
Taking, Breaking, and Re-Making
A comprehensive look at the overlooked art of Maharashtra
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.
Histories “Made out of Pictures and Words Just Kept”
Taking responsibility for the collective labor of making and holding memory