How has the past year's quarantine affected your professional life?

The Quarantine Question

AJO readers respond to the pandemic in words, sound, and images

On the left, a woman in three-quarters view with crossed wrists holds a roll of toilet paper. She wears a toilet paper headdress and make-up to resemble Bernhard Strigel's Portrait of Martha Thannstetter. On the right is Strigel's actual painting, showing a woman in three-quarters view with crossed wrists holds a scroll. She wears a cloth headdress that covers her hair.

The Art of the COVID Copy

The practice of re-creating masterworks goes viral

Thumbnail of an iframe that links out to a dynamic digital project by Jeremiah Barber. Primary image is a full-color collage of the Transamerica Building in San Francisco entwined / taken over by a termite mound, with a mouse cursor hovering over it, revealing a pop-up video of two fingers pressing a lever.

Feral Intimacies, Part II—our homes are inedible

What we can learn from termites on surviving hostile conditions

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

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

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

Stanford Express Care nurse Anna Chico, her head and body hidden behind layers of protective gear, wears a smiling portrait affixed over her heart so that people arriving at the COVID-19 testing clinic can see an image of her face

Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

The PPE Portrait Project builds trust between patients and health-care workers during COVID-19

Collage with forty dried rose petals glued to paper with handwritten notes by the artist

Rosa enferma, Together Apart

Kaira M. Cabañas considers our vulnerable yet resilient social relations in a time of pandemic, through the lens of a work by Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón

Diné COVID PSA

A graphic public-service announcement for the Diné (Navajo) Nation and beyond, by artist, physician, and community organizer Chip Thomas