This review first appeared in Art Journal vol. 83, no. 2 (Summer 2024) Misty Gamble: Of Flesh and the Feminine,…
The Fires
Artist Christopher López looks at the tragedy of gentrification and the Puerto Rican community of Hoboken, New Jersey
“Politics in Matter”: Concrete Expressions in Contemporary Palestinian Art of Resistance
How Palestinian artists in Israel are using concrete to convey struggle, violence, defense, and fear
World-building and Futurity through Collaboration in Caribbean Diasporic Art Practices: A Conversation
Nyugen E. Smith and Nicole Emser discuss collaboration, language, and the importance of diasporic community
The Oppositional Gaze of the Wayward Woman
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