Margaret Winslow reviews exhibitions at MoMA and the Whitney
Category: From Art Journal
Burning All Illusion: Abstraction, Black Life, and the Unmaking of White Supremacy
Artists Samuel Levi Jones and Josh Begley challenge the ethics of representing Blackness
Context, Cursilería, and Sorrow: Beatriz González
Teresa Eckmann reviews a retrospective and The Politics of Taste
Haptic Encounters: Margarita Cabrera’s Space in Between
Angelique Szymanek untangles the metaphorical threads in an artist’s soft sculpture
Domain Errors
Visible or invisible . . . ? An interactive game by Dorothy Santos
Horizons Already Here: Video Games and Landscape
Soraya Murray explores video games from an art historical perspective
Audience in the Archive
Didier Morelli reviews Adair Rounthwaite’s book on participatory art in 1980s New York
Narcissister, a Truly Kinky Artist
Tiffany E. Barber on the darkly humorous world of performance artist Narcissister, whose play on race, gender, and sexuality challenges conventional conceptions of identity
Art History and the Modern in Southeast Asia
Pamela N. Corey reviews an anthology of the work of art historian and critic T. K. Sabapathy
“Come Out to Show Them”: Speech and Ambivalence in the Work of Steve Reich and Glenn Ligon
Ellen Tani explores how an incidence of police brutality in the Harlem of 1964 is deployed in artworks by musician Steve Reich and visual artist Glenn Ligon
Traces of Traces: Image Histories in Lebanon
Anneka Lenssen reviews two recent books on photography in Lebanon
The Future Is Present: Electronic Café and the Politics of Technological Fantasy
In the predigital era, an experiment in community-based virtual network building is launched in Los Angeles. Philip Glahn and Cary Levine uncover the activist collective Mobile Image’s project of 1984, Electronic Café