Images in a Pandemic

Students reflect on image culture during quarantine

Fallback Friday: Photography, Caravaggio & The Musicians

Degree Critical returns to Yinka Elujoba’s meditation into the quality of light, Caravaggio, and Roy DeCarava

Fallback Friday: The End of Writing, or Ursula Monkton

Degree Critical revisits Cigdem Asatekin’s meditation on invisible monsters and writer’s block

Pieces Of Burning Coal Rolling On A Painted Surface

Sumeja Tulic pays homage to the late Hungarian artist Omara Mara Oláh

Suffering From Realness

Sahar Khraibani offers a powerful meditation on the film “HyperNormalisation” from Adam Curtis

Every Here Is An Elsewhere

Sahar Khraibani collects impressions in response to the public photographic work of Farah Al Qasimi

Barbara Loden’s “Wanda” and the Invisibility of the Working Class

Cynthia Cruz writes about the plight of the working class in Barbara Loden’s film, “Wanda”

After Manet: The Wife, the Fish, and the Philosopher

Cigdem Asatekin explores the life of Edouard Manet’s most important model, his wife

The Souvenir, The Wound

Cynthia Cruz considers class privilege and social distance in her explication of the film “The Souvenir”

The Aerial Muse & Maine’s Fallow Fields of History

Lune Ames explores indigenous history in Yvonne Jacquette’s “Little River Farm”

Joan Jonas’s “Moving Off the Land II” at Ocean Space in Venice

Monika Fabijanska considers feminism and the role of the artist in Joan Jonas’s “Moving Off the Land II” at Ocean Space in Venice

Encountering the Medium: A Few Lessons from James Turrell’s “Shanta II (blue)”

Lucija Furac considers perception and objecthood in James Turrell’s “Shanta II (blue)”