Recent texts in trans studies
Category: From Art Journal
Portraits (and) Matter
Siona Wilson reviews the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First as well as Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey’s catalog
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
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
Ambient Think Tanks
Ina Blom reviews Pamela M. Lee’s book on the aesthetics of a political institution
Interview with Texas Isaiah
“don’t kill this vibe”: Navigating vulnerability, visibility, and privacy in photography
Pope.L: The Body and Its Void
Margaret Winslow reviews exhibitions at MoMA and the Whitney
Burning All Illusion: Abstraction, Black Life, and the Unmaking of White Supremacy
Artists Samuel Levi Jones and Josh Begley challenge the ethics of representing Blackness
Context, Cursilería, and Sorrow: Beatriz González
Teresa Eckmann reviews a retrospective and The Politics of Taste
Haptic Encounters: Margarita Cabrera’s Space in Between
Angelique Szymanek untangles the metaphorical threads in an artist’s soft sculpture