Summer 2015
Selected content from this issue of Art Journal is available at the links below.
Exhibition announcement for Invisible Americans: Black Artists of the 30’s , ca. 1968 , The Studio Museum in Harlem, Romare Bearden papers, 1937–1982, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Installation view of the OBA at the San Diego Museum of Art, 2010 (photograph
© Geoffrey Cunningham and Carla Repice;
photograph provided by Geoffrey Cunningham)
Features
Caroline V. Wallace
Exhibiting Authenticity: The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s Protests of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968–1971, 5
Christopher Tradowsky
The Office of Blame Accountability and Art against Ressentiment, 24
Raven Falquez Munsell
Libertà al Cile : Alternative Media and Art as Information at the 1974 Venice Biennale, 44
Silvia Bottinelli
The Discourse of Modern Nomadism: The Tent in Italian Art and Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s, 62
Libertà al Cile newspaper, cover pages of issues 1–5, 1974 , ink on paper, ea. 39⅜ x 26¾ in. (100 x 68 cm) (documents © Ente Autonomo La Biennale di Venezia, Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee; photographs provided by Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago)
Superstudio, Life—Supersurface, The Happy Island Project , 1971 , ink, airbrush, graphite, and cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper, 19¾ x 27⅝ in. (50.2 x 70.2 cm). Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York (artwork © Superstudio; digital Image © Museum of Modern Art/licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY)
Artist’s Project
Christian Nagler
Yoga for Adjuncts: The Somatics of Human Capital
artwork © Christian Nagler
Reviews
Shannon M. Lieberman on Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions , ed. Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry; Swagato Chakravorty on Giuliana Bruno, Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media ; and Robert Slifkin on Peter Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist
Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry, eds, Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions
Giuliana Bruno , Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media
Peter Plagens , Bruce Nauman: The True Artist