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Color video still of performer Monique Jenkinson performing as her drag persona, Fauxnique. She wears heavy makeup, devouring an image of a hand wearing a large bracelet that appears to have been cut from a fashion magazine; magazine cutouts of other body parts are stuck to her forehead.

Diva Maw

Drag performer Fauxnique exalts in humanity, vulnerability, and decay

By Monique Jenkinson on October 29th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, drag, fauxnique, feminism, feministart, videoart

Context, Cursilería, and Sorrow: Beatriz González

Teresa Eckmann reviews a retrospective and The Politics of Taste

By Teresa Eckmann on October 15th, 2020 in From Art Journal AnaMaríaReyes, artsandthecoldwar, BeatrizGonzález, Colombianartists, MariCarmenRamírez, TobiasOstrander

Haptic Encounters: Margarita Cabrera’s Space in Between

Angelique Szymanek untangles the metaphorical threads in an artist’s soft sculpture

By Angelique Szymanek on October 15th, 2020 in From Art Journal craftandart, hapticart, MargaritaCabrera, spaceinbetween, transborderart
One banner says "Let Us Vote!" in bold, colorful neon letters on a black background; next to it, another banner says "The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t" in neon green on black

Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t

Exposing voter suppression through performance and installation art

By Aram Han Sifuentes on October 1st, 2020 in Contemporary Projects AramHanSifuentes, disenfrancisement, letusvote, officialunofficialvotingstation, voting, votingforall, votingforallwholegallycant
Many masked people wearing red stare at the sky, many with their phones raised to take pictures

The Masked Island

Singapore’s technocracy faces COVID-19

By John Lee on September 10th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, photoessay, photography, Singapore
An art installation constructed of vertical metal studs and mic stands, intertwined with black electrical cables

Barricades of Silence: Nikita Gale in Conversation with Jesús Fuenmayor

Exploring space, sound, and radical silence in installation art

By Jesús Fuenmayor on August 20th, 2020 in Conversations BlackLivesMatter, BLM, JesusFuenmayor, LISTENTOBLACKWOMXN, NikitaGale
A 3-minute, full-color digital animation that collages a series of images produced by the artist to represent wartime conflict

Projections From The Third Half [Cloud Storm]

Zeina Barakeh deconstructs conflict through animation and collage

By Zeina Barakeh on August 6th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects cloudstorm, homelandinsecurity, middleeasternartists, narrativesofwar, palestinianart, polarization, politicalart
A text-based, interactive, choose-your-own-adventure game built on the Twine platform

Domain Errors

Visible or invisible . . . ? An interactive game by Dorothy Santos

By Dorothy R. Santos on July 24th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects, From Art Journal artandvideogames, biosurveillance, biotech, fantasy, gender, race, science fiction

Horizons Already Here: Video Games and Landscape

Soraya Murray explores video games from an art historical perspective

By Soraya Murray on July 24th, 2020 in From Art Journal artandvideogames, landscapeinart

Audience in the Archive

Didier Morelli reviews Adair Rounthwaite’s book on participatory art in 1980s New York

By Didier Morelli on July 16th, 2020 in From Art Journal diaartfoundation, groupmaterial, participatoryart
Stanford Express Care nurse Anna Chico, her head and body hidden behind layers of protective gear, wears a smiling portrait affixed over her heart so that people arriving at the COVID-19 testing clinic can see an image of her face

Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

The PPE Portrait Project builds trust between patients and health-care workers during COVID-19

By Julia Bryan-Wilson and Mary Beth Heffernan on June 30th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, PPEPortrait, PPEPortraitProject
exterior of three tiered metal cladding with Washington monument

Just Being

Art historians Risham Majeed and Blake Bradford offer a proxy visit to three still-new sites dedicated to African American history

By Risham Majeed with Blake Bradford on May 22nd, 2020 in Conversations artjournalopen, caavisual, equaljusticeinitiative, karawalker, lynchingmemorial, martinpuryear, NMAAHC, rishammajeed, smithsonian

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