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Story Time: West Hollywood’s New AIDS Monument

I first noted its edges out of my peripheral vision five days before Christmas. Twoish days later, I took in some of its luminescent glow from across San Vicente Boulevard, the sounds of queer excess and…

By Jason Alley

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Traces of the Self: An Interview with Eric Schmaltz

By Myra Bloom

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Review of Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself

By Emma Peters

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Katherine Hubbard’s The Great Room and Beyond: Oddkin in the Expanded Darkroom of the Photobook

By David Berridge

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Reimagined Horrors of Ibadan: A Review of Thematic Concerns and Yoruba Significance in The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau

By Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo

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Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy at Esker Foundation

By Margaryta Golovchenko

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The Wing that Remains: Organic Afterlife of Ming Fay at The Campus

By Renee Yu Jin

From the Archives:

Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase

Edited by Michael Dango

From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion

Edited by Leila Easa & Jennifer Stager

Hauntings

Edited by Emmy Waldman & David Hering

Algorithms and the Occult

Edited by Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro & Briana Vecchione

Katherine Hubbard’s The Great Room and Beyond: Oddkin in the Expanded Darkroom of the Photobook

The mirrored closet doors are part of a collection of architectural salvage. Once obtained, they sit in an already stuffed-full house in upstate New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic their new owner, Antonette Berger, began suffering…

By David Berridge

Fast Extinction, Slow Art: On Work by Henry Ossawa Tanner and Neil Welliver

Attending carefully to a work of art can shape our care for the world; slowing down to observe is itself an intervention in the rapidly deteriorating environments wrought by a system whose mantra is speed and…

By Helena Feder

Smooth Parataxis and Polyvalent Montage: John Ashbery’s Poetics in Nathaniel Dorsky’s Avant-Garde Filmmaking

Spring with its promise of winter….And it is December again,the snow outside. Or is it June full of sun — John Ashbery, “The Skaters” : : Nathaniel Dorsky’s silent, 45-minute avant-garde film, Hours for Jerome (1982),…

By Grace Hayes & Brendan Nagle

A Conversation with Artist Maria Gaspar on Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall

This conversation with the artist Maria Gaspar centers thinking about the relationship between art and protest, visual offerings, and an abolitionist aesthetics of possibility. We speak about avenues of liberation that emerge when we broadcast the…

By Itzel Corona Aguilar

Reimagined Horrors of Ibadan: A Review of Thematic Concerns and Yoruba Significance in The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau

Displacement, Paul Liam observes in a review-essay, is a central aesthetic in the poetics of diasporic writers, either subconsciously or not, in such a way that the exiled writer is constantly questioning their “belongingness to a…

By Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo

Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy at Esker Foundation

During my visit to Jana Sterbak’s retrospective on opening night, I did not immediately recognize the famed “meat dress,” Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987). The flank steak from which the piece was stitched…

By Margaryta Golovchenko

The Wing that Remains: Organic Afterlife of Ming Fay at The Campus

2025 Annual Exhibition, The Campus341 NY-217, Claverack, NYJune 28 — October 26, 2025 A soft light washes along the old school corridor. The air feels slightly cool, carrying the faint scent of tile and paint. It is…

By Renee Yu Jin

Liberatory Blueprints: A Review of Jina B. Kim’s Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Jina B. Kim’s Care at the End of the World (Duke, 2025) radicalizes what we think of as infrastructure in an increasingly-precarious contemporary landscape, one defined by racialized abandonment, isolation, and apocalyptic devastations. Infrastructures, in anthropologist…

By Augusta Funk