From Art Journal 71, no. 2 (Summer 2012) Bhupen Khakhar self-produced a catalogue to accompany his March 1972 exhibition Truth … More
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Invisible Products
Julia Bryan-Wilson’s essay “Invisible Products” explores a most unusual archive of photographs by Ansel Adams—some seven thousand photographs he took in the mid-1960s on commission from the University of California.
New Realisms in the 1960s
By Jaimey Hamilton
The term nouveau réalisme, or new realism, has long been tied to the specific claims made by the critic Pierre Restany about the Paris-based art group he promoted. Restany convinced Arman, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, Martial Raysse, Jacques de la Villeglé, Raymond Hains, and François Dufrêne to sign on initially, and then added César, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Gérard Deschamps, Mimmo Rotella, and Christo.
Art, History, and Criticism
By Katy Siegel
It can seem as if recent changes in how we learn do little more than facilitate a quantitative randomness. But the centrality of the Internet to intellectual work has made visible one under-recognized and revolutionary truth: the collective nature of creating knowledge.
City after Fifty Years’ Living: L.A.’s Differences in Relation
By Malik Gaines
A marketing triumph, Pacific Standard Time has been responsible for a series of promotional videos, slickly produced, that pair an honored artist with a Southern California celebrity. The shining success among these original works is the pairing of the late design team Ray and Charles Eames with the rapper and actor Ice Cube.
City of Angles
By Jennifer Doyle
Los Angeles mythology is hard to cut through: The city has no center, no sense of history, it has no depth. It is the city that plays itself and the city that forgets itself.
Winter 2011, Vol. 70, No. 4
In This Issue Katy Siegel, In Print, 5 Artist’s Project Matthew Brannon, Pressing the “Delete” button, not pressing the “Are you … More
Fall 2011, Vol. 70, No. 3
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Reconstruction, 5 Centennial Essay Krista Thompson, A Sidelong Glance: The Practice of African Diaspora Art … More
Summer 2011, Vol. 70, No. 2
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Making Time, 5 Centennial Essay Nora A. Taylor, Art without History? Southeast Asian Artists and … More
Spring 2011, Vol. 70, No. 1
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Race to the Finish, 5 Artist’s Project Paul Sietsema, covers Centennial Essay Richard Shiff, Every … More
In Print
By Katy Siegel
At my first meeting as editor-in-chief, the Art Journal Editorial Board learned that due to fallout from the financial crisis of 2008–9, CAA could not afford to publish the journal as a quarterly—there would only be three issues in 2010, with reduced color and page count. It turns out that printing a magazine is, as these things go, a luxury.
The Binder and the Server
By Triple Canopy
At first a convenience, then quickly a conundrum: Of course we would publish on the internet. We came of age with the medium, it was our generation’s default. Plus, financially speaking, it remained—and remains, for now—a wheat-paste endeavor: nine dollars a month to hold down a domain name.