The first in a series on practice and futures
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
Toward a Reparative Pedagogy: Art as Trigger, Art as Repair
Hard Lessons on Trauma, Teaching, and Art History
X Marks the Land
Emily Eliza Scott reviews the outdoor exhibition Desert X
A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History
Recent texts in trans studies
Portraits (and) Matter
Siona Wilson reviews the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First as well as Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey’s catalog
The Quarantine Question
AJO readers respond to the pandemic in words, sound, and images
Transiting in Anti-Patriarchal Worlds: The Queer Photography of Fernando Fuentes
Brian Whitener on the art of collective transformation
A Call to Artists
Writing and artwork by Cauleen Smith, Charles Gaines, Edgar Arceneaux, Howardena Pindell, Michael Ray Charles, and Glenn Ligon
With Each Other
Nijah Cunningham reviews Nicole R. Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth
Elana Mann makes protective talismans for our truth-challenged times