Pamela N. Corey reviews an anthology of the work of art historian and critic T. K. Sabapathy
Category: From Art Journal
“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
At Home in the World: The FotoFest 2018 Biennial of Indian Photography
Sophia Powers reviews the 2018 exhibition India/Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art, and its accompanying catalogue by the same name
Artful Embodiment: Genealogies of the Impossible
Stephanie Sparling Williams reviews Uri McMillan’s Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, and Malik Gaines’s Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
The Power of Inclusion in Donald Judd’s Art: Observations by an Artist
Gail Hastings executes a close formal reading of Donald Judd’s sculpture Untitled (DSS 33), as well as the “unity that Judd’s space champions in us”