A Declaration

E. A. Bryant III, L.P.I. examines American iconoclasm and a perennial state of “recuperation”

Everything Is Contaminated, Pt. 1

Lune Ames traces how a garden and art installations in vacant storefronts reacquainted them with the notion of contamination

The Curse of Prophesy: Gery Georgieva’s “Sybil’s Noon Shower of Stones”

Amelia Rina explores the dystopian forecasts of algorithmic prophecies in Georgieva’s multimedia installation

Barefoot Suicide

Sumeja Tulic commemorates Ferida and those lost in the Srebrenica genocide 25 years ago

Cultural Work as Parasitic Labor

Enos Nyamor considers the role of the artist among the classifications of “essential” and “non-essential” workers

Production of Anti-Social Distance

Enos Nyamor considers the “social” as a contemporary phenomenon in light of “social distancing” during the Covid-19 pandemic

Empathy As Form

Kate Brock challenges contemporary notions of empathy & racism as a virus

Desire Was A Single Black Square

Sumeja Tulic considers an aesthetic lineage of the black square in light of Blackout Tuesday on June 2nd

“No New Theories” by Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Lauren Palmer reviews Rasheed’s monochromatic artist book

We Need Embodied Criticism

Lune Ames discusses the antiracist work of the critic as somatic

Respiratory Failure

Jessica Holmes addresses America’s systemic racism as a form of suffocation amidst the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic

Images in a Pandemic

Students reflect on image culture during quarantine