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Ornate Grievance: Monstrous Beauty at the Met

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, exhibitionThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMarch 25, 2025 — August 17, 2025 The circular show Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie begins and ends with two ceramic…

By Yunning Zhang

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Hauntings

Edited by Emmy Waldman & David Hering

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Recycling Modernism in the Pacific Islands: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez

By Robert Volpicelli

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Uncanny Juxtapositions / Re-Shuffle: How Do We Do Contemporary Global Art, Theory, and Politics Today?

By Shiqi Lin

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Uncanny Juxtapositions / Over-Views of Black Migration in Shore|Lines and Clean Slate

By Ifeanyi Awachie

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Review of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire

By Julian O'Brien

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Review of Ben Mangrum’s The Comedy of Computation, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence

By Scott Selisker

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Algorithms and the Occult

Edited by Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro & Briana Vecchione

Manifesting Africanfuturism

Edited by Damilare Bello & Tolulope Oke

Capitalist Realism at 15

Edited by Robin Blyn & Maria Bose

Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation” @ 60

Edited by Nell Wasserstrom

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

Ecological Relationality in La marcha del liquen

Tania Ximena’s (Mexico b. 1985) La marcha del liquen (The Stride of Lichen, 2024) is a 29-minute experimental short that quietly unsettles our assumptions about distance, time, and environmental crisis. Shot in Yokot’an and Spanish, with Spanish…

By Amanda Macedo Macedo

New Frontiers for the Afronaut in Maisha Maene’s Mulika

Maisha Maene’s short film Mulika (2022) opens with slow-moving shots of a desolate landscape. Filmed on the slopes Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and largely captured…

By Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

Uncanny Juxtapositions / Re-Shuffle: How Do We Do Contemporary Global Art, Theory, and Politics Today?

I. Shuffle. In the history of music technology, this small button integrated into the Apple iPod in the early 2000s significantly changed the way we listen to music. Unbundled across artist, genre, region, and time period,…

By Shiqi Lin

Uncanny Juxtapositions / Over-Views of Black Migration in Shore|Lines and Clean Slate

In the 2025 installation “Shore|Lines,” exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, Illinois, artist Regina Agu uses “the methodology of landscape panorama” to examine connections between the Black communities of the Gulf South…

By Ifeanyi Awachie

Review of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire

The past decade has seen a significant shift in the presentation of art that emerges as part of, rather than bearing witness to, social movements. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, and stakeholder communities have increasingly worked together…

By Julian O'Brien

Provocations / Latinx Revolutionary Horizons and Expanding the Latinx Studies Field Imaginary

This Provocation reflects on Renee Hudson’s Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas. Latinx Studies practitioners have long grappled with our field imaginary, and Hudson’s book offers one of the richest elaborations of what…

By David J. Vázquez