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The Aesthetics of Torture: Listening to Abu Zubaydah’s Interrogation Drawings

Deciphering testimonials of violence from Guantánamo Bay

By Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts on January 28th, 2021 in Texts + Documents GuantánamoBay, listening, torture, visuality
Book cover for the exhibition catalog "member: Pope.L." The cover is solid light-gray; at the center, a small color photo shows a man kneeling on the sidewalk in front of a crosswalk.

Pope.L: The Body and Its Void

Margaret Winslow reviews exhibitions at MoMA and the Whitney

By Margaret Winslow on January 14th, 2021 in From Art Journal artjournal, Blackness, havenotness, margaretwinslow, museumofmodernart, pope.l, whitneymuseum
A grid of deep-red, torn, equal-sized flattened book covers stitched together, 5 across by 6 down.

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

By Leigh Raiford on January 14th, 2021 in From Art Journal abstraction, artjournal, Blackness, ethicsofseeing, joshbegley, leighraiford, samuellevijones

Squares, Triangles & Cats

“Relax like a cat” with this soothing, quarantine-friendly coloring project

By Asuka Ohsawa on December 31st, 2020 in Contemporary Projects coloringpages, geometryandart, internetcats, printouts, redandwhitequilts
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?

By Caitlin Berrigan and Sasha Engelmann on December 17th, 2020 in Conversations feministart, imaginaryexplosions, videoart
Digital collage including a pair of staged, black-and-white, 19th-century photographs of a young Indigenous boy before and after being assimilated at a Canadian residential school. The image is overlaid with contemporary anticolonial writing.

The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability, and the Politics of Redress

Artist Chris Bose underscores the impacts of Canadian settler-colonialism, both past and present

By Reilley Bishop-Stall on December 3rd, 2020 in Texts + Documents chrisbose, residentialschools, theapology, thomasmoore
Black-and-white photograph of an older woman and a child embracing one another; both are standing outside and wearing handmade cloth face masks. The title of the zine and the name of all contributors is superimposed over the image.

Pandemic Chronicles, Volume 1

Eight artists bear witness to collective grief and resilience in this multimedia zine

By Pandemic Poetics Collective; Edited by Chip Thomas on November 19th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, BLM, chipthomas, covid, jetsonorama, zines
Color video still of performer Monique Jenkinson performing as her drag persona, Fauxnique. She wears heavy makeup, devouring an image of a hand wearing a large bracelet that appears to have been cut from a fashion magazine; magazine cutouts of other body parts are stuck to her forehead.

Diva Maw

Drag performer Fauxnique exalts in humanity, vulnerability, and decay

By Monique Jenkinson on October 29th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, drag, fauxnique, feminism, feministart, videoart

Context, Cursilería, and Sorrow: Beatriz González

Teresa Eckmann reviews a retrospective and The Politics of Taste

By Teresa Eckmann on October 15th, 2020 in From Art Journal AnaMaríaReyes, artsandthecoldwar, BeatrizGonzález, Colombianartists, MariCarmenRamírez, TobiasOstrander

Haptic Encounters: Margarita Cabrera’s Space in Between

Angelique Szymanek untangles the metaphorical threads in an artist’s soft sculpture

By Angelique Szymanek on October 15th, 2020 in From Art Journal craftandart, hapticart, MargaritaCabrera, spaceinbetween, transborderart
One banner says "Let Us Vote!" in bold, colorful neon letters on a black background; next to it, another banner says "The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t" in neon green on black

Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t

Exposing voter suppression through performance and installation art

By Aram Han Sifuentes on October 1st, 2020 in Contemporary Projects AramHanSifuentes, disenfrancisement, letusvote, officialunofficialvotingstation, voting, votingforall, votingforallwholegallycant
Many masked people wearing red stare at the sky, many with their phones raised to take pictures

The Masked Island

Singapore’s technocracy faces COVID-19

By John Lee on September 10th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, photoessay, photography, Singapore

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