From the AJO Archives: six contemporary writers examine the contributions of six foundational voices in Latin American modernist art criticism
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Reappropriating Gauguin in Contemporary Polynesian Photography
Mary Trent examines the work of contemporary photographers Namsa Leuba and Yuki Kihara as critical reappropriations of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings
Facing Photographic Acts (After Allan Sekula)
In the spirit of Allan Sekula, an analysis of the creative practices of Tomoko Sawada and Shabtai Pinchevsky
Constellatory Blackness
Revisiting the legacy of Alvin Ailey
DRC No. 12: A “Migratory” Site of Glocal Specificity
This article first appeared in Art Journal vol. 83, no. 3 (Fall 2024) DRC No. 12 is an independent nonprofit … More
Fugitive Utterances in Modernity’s Song
Uri McMillan on challenging the prevailing understanding of a universal aesthetic
Beyond the Neo-Imperial Politicizing of Object Repatriation: Restitution and the Question of Decolonization
Restitution, diplomacy, and cultural reunion
Robert Blanchon: AIDS and the Question of Conceptualism
Subjectivity, conceptual expression, and AIDS imagery in the work of Robert Blanchon
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
Ruptured Envelopes, Double Shells: Skins in Art in the Age of Global Mobility
Hava Aldouby on the presence and meaning of skin in the art of the early twenty-first century.
Introducing Grace Aneiza Ali—AJO’s New Editor-in-Chief
A short interview with our new editor