An artist documents moments of awakening, acceptance, and feminine power.
The Terms of Craft and Other Means of Making: Lee Bontecou’s Hybrid Trajectory
From the AJO Archives revisits this 2012 essay exploring Lee Bontecou’s experimental sculpture technique
A Re-evaluation of Impressions: Shah Garg Foundation’s Making Their Mark
Who does mark-making belong to?
The Color of Joy: A Roundtable Discussion
A roundtable on how the BIPOC subject finds opportunities to experience pleasure and joy in their daily lives.
Robert Blanchon: AIDS and the Question of Conceptualism
Subjectivity, conceptual expression, and AIDS imagery in the work of Robert Blanchon
Forget Me Not: How We Remember and Teach Painful Pasts
Students at Washington and Lee University reflect on the school’s history of enslavement
Black Op Art
What are Black contemporary artists doing in the face of institutional erasure and neglect?
Children Of The Water
Yelaine Rodriguez’s Children Of The Water draws on the Afro-syncretic to realize a free-flowing photographic project
Small Boats, Slave Ship; or, Isaac Julien and the Beauty of Implied Catastrophe
From the AJO Archives: Emma Chubb discusses art that addresses trans-Mediterranean crossings
Jannis Kounellis: An Epic Journey With No Return
A review of Jannis Kounellis at the Walker Art Center
Feminist Interview Project: Michal Heiman in Conversation with Gil Z. Hochberg
The Feminist Interview Project speaks with pioneering multidisciplinary artist Michal Heiman.
The 2023 Year in Review on Art Journal Open
A Look Back at 2023’s Most-Read Posts from Art Journal Open