Category: ARTM Print: Volume 15, Issue 1

This issue of ARTMargins offers a broad variety of perspectives on key problems of current cultural analysis, including colonialism, the problem of class from the point of view of specific historical contexts, and the need to gather multiple perspectives on art’s global circulation and the critical methodologies we use to engage with it. In the opening article, “A Monument in Conflict: Transnational Resistance and the Politics of Commemoration in La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers’s I Am Queen Mary,” Kristine Nielsen discusses a 2018 monument that highlights the history of Danish colonialism and Denmark’s role in the Atlantic slave trade. … Read more

This roundtable focuses on the connections between art or culture and class, and on the multiple forms this connection takes today. Even as class distinctions have evolved over the years, and even as the role played by social class in contemporary struggles for social justice and recognition has been obscured, class remains formative of late capitalist subjectivity and continues to have a significant, if mostly unacknowledged, impact on our lives. We have invited scholars and artists who work with the question of class relations in culture to address a series of pertinent questions: does class still function as catalyst for … Read more

This article explores the books of interviews, published in 2024, with the prominent German-American art critic Benjamin Buchloh and his Yugoslavian peer Jerko “Ješa” Denegri. In Exit Interview, Buchloh is interviewed by his colleague and friend Hal Foster; and in The Yugoslav Art Space, Denegri engages in a dialogue with Branislav Dimitrijević and Jelena Vesić, the art critics that came of age during the unraveling of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. While the first book engages in a retrospective view of Buchloh’s career as an art critic, the second one attempts, in Vesić’s words, to establish a dialogical method … Read more

A subversive and poetic take on walking art practice as a tool of expressing dissent/critical stands in a non-offensive manner. This Is The Way is targeting and juxtaposing infrastructure and certain features of police boxes and public toilets, highlighting broad ideas of hygiene, rest and safety together with the mechanics of body control from the perspective of social engineering and critical urbanism. The project was conducted in Tokyo in Summer 2025 as a component of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship.

ARTMargins, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 95-110.

doi:10.1162/ARTM.a.368

https://direct.mit.edu/artm/article/15/1/95/135571/This-is-the-Way-The-Landmarks-Rethinking-and

Until recently, the museum of modern art was characterized as a critical organ/an
organizer of a retrospective nature. As an institution that appropriates and
coordinates, nothing substantially distinguished its functions from those of a
traditional museum. The peculiarity of a museum of modern art evidently resides in the
need for an available discernment about the most recent productions and debates. But
this museum, modeled on the traditional museum consecrated to ancient art, defined
itself by ultimately operating on the premise that the artwork is a fully executed fact.
In recent years, however, we start imagining a museum organized in accordance … Read more