Portraits (and) Matter

Siona Wilson reviews the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First as well as Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey’s catalog

The Quarantine Question

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

Transiting in Anti-Patriarchal Worlds: The Queer Photography of Fernando Fuentes

Brian Whitener on the art of collective transformation.

A Call to Artists

Writing and artwork by Cauleen Smith, Charles Gaines, Edgar Arceneaux, Howardena Pindell, Michael Ray Charles, and Glenn Ligon.

With Each Other

Nijah Cunningham reviews Nicole R. Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth

Elana Mann makes protective talismans for our truth-challenged times

The Art of the COVID Copy

The practice of re-creating masterworks goes viral

Feral Intimacies, Part II—our homes are inedible

What we can learn from termites on surviving hostile conditions

How Internalized White Supremacy Manifests for My BIPOC Students in Art School

Fighting microaggressions in the classroom

Red Windows on the World

Jennifer Dorothy Lee reviews Drawing from Life by Christine I. Ho

Feral Intimacies, Part I—Super Furs for the Super Futures 77: Beavereavement

An animated zine on inspiration, grief…and parachuting beavers

The Weight of Matter: Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson in Conversation

How the materiality of clay mirrors the body