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Category: Texts + Documents

Image of the cover of A History of Arab Graphic Design

A Kaleidoscopic Overview of Graphic Design from the Arab World

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès reviews

By Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès on July 21st, 2022 in Texts + Documents

A Small Matter of Agency

Anthony Gardner reviews two new anthologies

By Anthony Gardner on April 21st, 2022 in From Art Journal, Texts + Documents

SCAB: Honoring the Memory of Mr. Fred Rouse

Will Wilson and Adam W. McKinney rethink anti-Black terror and photography in a new artists’ project

By Will Wilson and Adam W. McKinney on April 21st, 2022 in From Art Journal, Texts + Documents
A large-scale installation resembling the Hollywood sign but spelling out “INDIANLAND,” by artist Nicholas Galanin, installed among boulders with desert mountains in the background.

X Marks the Land

Emily Eliza Scott reviews the outdoor exhibition Desert X

By Emily Eliza Scott on March 1st, 2022 in Texts + Documents
Photograph of a screening room with an image on screen of a close up face of a person with a tear falling from one eye, looking directly outward.

A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History

Recent texts in trans studies

By David J. Getsy and Che Gossett on February 4th, 2022 in Contemporary Projects, From Art Journal, Pedagogies, Texts + Documents
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

By Dana E. Katz and Lisa Pon, Guest Editors on December 21st, 2021 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations, Texts + Documents artandpandemics, artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, Dana E. Katz, Lisa Pon
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

By Dana E. Katz on August 12th, 2021 in Texts + Documents artandthenovelcoronavirus, instaart, re-creations, Renaissanceart
A plain solid-black box.

The Aesthetics of Torture: Listening to Abu Zubaydah’s Interrogation Drawings

Deciphering testimonials of violence from Guantánamo Bay

By Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts on January 28th, 2021 in Texts + Documents GuantánamoBay, listening, torture, visuality
Digital collage including a pair of staged, black-and-white, 19th-century photographs of a young Indigenous boy before and after being assimilated at a Canadian residential school. The image is overlaid with contemporary anticolonial writing.

The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability, and the Politics of Redress

Artist Chris Bose underscores the impacts of Canadian settler-colonialism, both past and present

By Reilley Bishop-Stall on December 3rd, 2020 in Texts + Documents chrisbose, residentialschools, theapology, thomasmoore
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

By Kaira M. Cabañas on May 7th, 2020 in Texts + Documents artandpandemics, artandthenovelcoronavirus, artistarchives, commoncorporeality, covid, distancelearning, globalconceptualism, JesúsFuenmayor, RobertoObregón, Rosaenferma, sharedvulnerability

More Than 100 Stories: Sharing Learning through Creative Evaluation

What happens when an arts bureaucracy steps away from “data-driven” evaluation of its program? Writer Sarah Butler recounts her collaboration with visual artist Nicole Mollett on a unique commission from Arts Council England

By Sarah Butler on January 31st, 2020 in Pedagogies, Texts + Documents

Sky Couture: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s BROKER and the Politics of Luxury

David Markus investigates a video work set in a Trump-branded condo and analyzes superluxury living in relation to material culture, consumer desires, and the political inclinations they index

By David Markus on January 17th, 2020 in Texts + Documents

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