Students reflect on image culture during quarantine
Category: Essays
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)”