Forging a Public Sphere: José Leonilson in the Folha de São Paulo
Between 1991 and 1993, the artist José Leonilson contributed a weekly illustration to Folha de São Paulo, Brazil’s highest circulation daily newspaper. This article argues...
Art as Resistance in Postwar Lebanon
This article attempts to read a number of contemporary Lebanese artists by using the Foucauldian-Deleuzian concept of regimes of visibility. The article shows how a...
After Moscow Conceptualism: Reflections on the Center and Periphery and Cultural Belatedness
Conceptual art is not only subject to a striking unevenness and a range of diverse forms across national territories during its emergence, but each national-cultural...
Art and Our Surrounds: Emergent and Residual Languages
This essay undertakes a review of recent books by T.J. Demos (Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (2016) and Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture...
The Material Conditions of Representation
Seethrough Mountain interrupts this journal through a physical shift in paper, texture and scale, and thereby proposes a pause or possible site of hesitation where the...
Introduction to “A Conversation between Chinese Artists and Mexican Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros”
In October 1956, the Mexican muralist David Siqueiros traveled Beijing and engaged in two dialogues with artists from the Chinese Artists’ Association. His visit came...
A Conversation between Chinese Artists and Mexican Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros
In October 1956, the Mexican muralist David Siqueiros traveled Beijing and engaged in two dialogues with artists from the Chinese Artists’ Association. His visit came...