Leonardo da Vinci
İsmail Saray
Aiming to contextualize Turkish artist İsmail Saray's artist book Leonardo da Vinci (1976), this text centers around the artist's educational formation and the early years...
Of Cultural Diplomacy, Culture Games, and Curation of Non-Western Art
Pamela Karimi
This essay is a review of the Iran Modern Exhibition, which took place at the Asia Society in New York from September 6, 2013, to...
The “Global” Contemporary Art Canon and the Case of China
Francesca Dal Lago
This essay reviews the book Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents edited by Wu Hung and published by the New York Museum of Modern Art in...
Four Encounters with Sculpture
Rayyane Tabet
In Four Encounters with Sculpture, Rayyane Tabet combines found material and short diary entries to explore four encounters with places, objects, and events. The project...
Seeing a World Apart: Visual Reality in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo/Cina
Jenny Lin
This essay examines Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo Cina (China) (1972), a documentary made in and about the People's Republic of China during the height of...
Introduction to İsmail Saray’s Leonardo da Vinci
Duygu Demir
Aiming to contextualize Turkish artist İsmail Saray's artist book Leonardo da Vinci (1976), this text centers around the artist's educational formation and the early years...
Turning to the Goddess: Anachronism, Secularity, and the Late Style of Tyeb Mehta and K. G. Subramanyan
Karin Zitzewitz
At nearly the same late-1980s moment, two of the most important artists of India's twentieth century, Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009) and K. G. Subramanyan (b. 1924),...
Roundtable on the Critical Archive
This roundtable article investigates the “critical archive” as a material concept in the fields of artistic production, art historiography, curatorial practice, and criticism. We invited...
