Soraya Murray explores video games from an art historical perspective
Category: From Art Journal
Audience in the Archive
Didier Morelli reviews Adair Rounthwaite’s book on participatory art in 1980s New York
Narcissister, a Truly Kinky Artist
Tiffany E. Barber on the darkly humorous world of performance artist Narcissister, whose play on race, gender, and sexuality challenges conventional conceptions of identity
Art History and the Modern in Southeast Asia
Pamela N. Corey reviews an anthology of the work of art historian and critic T. K. Sabapathy
“Come Out to Show Them”: Speech and Ambivalence in the Work of Steve Reich and Glenn Ligon
Ellen Tani explores how an incidence of police brutality in the Harlem of 1964 is deployed in artworks by musician Steve Reich and visual artist Glenn Ligon
Traces of Traces: Image Histories in Lebanon
Anneka Lenssen reviews two recent books on photography in Lebanon
The Future Is Present: Electronic Café and the Politics of Technological Fantasy
In the predigital era, an experiment in community-based virtual network building is launched in Los Angeles. Philip Glahn and Cary Levine uncover the activist collective Mobile Image’s project of 1984, Electronic Café
The Challenge of a Global Modernism
Edith A. G. Wolfe on two recent studies of “discrepant modernities” in Latin America
“a salting of sorts”: Salt, Sea, and Affective Form in the Work of Deborah Jack
C. C. McKee examines the materiality and significance of salt in Deborah Jack’s art practice and poetry
Questions of Identity: Photographic Series by Alicia D’Amico, 1983–86
María Laura Rosa on how Alicia D’Amico’s images of female desire reflect “dissident and destabilizing identities in the heteronormative visual imaginary” (in English and Spanish)
Exorcising the Soviet: The Unfolding of Contemporary Artistic Practice in Armenia
Duygu Demir reviews The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The Journey of the “Painterly-Real,” 1987–2004
In Tehran: A Conversation with Iranian Gallerists
This roundtable conversation among Iranian gallerists, available in English and in Persian, explores the politics and particularities of gallery ownership in Tehran