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Table of Contents
- Artworld
- by The Editors
- People, Awards, Obituaries
- Backstory
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by Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell recalls the hopes, challenges, and sweat equity entailed in the 1972 founding of the women’s cooperative gallery A.I.R.
- First Look
by Dana Kopel
Engaging directly with audience members, performance artist keyon gaskin challenges social hierarchy, race relations, gender fixity, and the conventions of theater.
Editor’s Letter
by William S. Smith
- Break Open This Container
by Christopher Green
The commodification of Indigenous culture is a global phenomenon. Souvenir shops throughout southeast Alaska sell imitations of Northwest Coast Native masks made in Indonesia. Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂), based near Juneau, offers such kitsch a path to salvation through the blade of his adze.
- Cinematic Borderlands
by Elizabeth Fullerton
Besides the relation of objects to people, another theme in Nashashibi’s work is the way humans organize themselves into communities and institutions, whether a patriarchal extended family or a police force, and how they navigate within these structures. She homes in on social groupings that are often single-sex and isolated by function or circumstance.
- Possible Views of the Art World
by Jameson Fitzpatrick
Together, Impossible Views and MacArthur Park suggest that art itself might be such a failed project.
- Books
by Gregory Galligan
Gregory Galligan on David Teh’s Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary; plus related titles in brief.
- Sightlines
by The Editors
Philadelphia Contemporary artistic director Nato Thompson tells us what’s on his mind.
The Brief
by The Editors
Singapore Art Week; Este Arte art fair; Michel Sittow; Kader Attia; Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair.
Remembering Linda Nochlin
by Michael Lobel, Aruna D'Souza, Kenneth E. Silver and Elizabeth C. Baker
Four colleagues of Linda Nochlin celebrate the achievements of the late art historian, who—often in the pages of A.i.A.—boldly broadened the scope of her discipline.
- Moving Targets
by Nancy Princenthal
Collaboration and community have been central to L.A. painter Laura Owens’s practice since the 1990s, though she now stands in the center of debates about the role of artists in gentrifying cities.
- Socially Awkward
by Gabriel Coxhead
July’s work highlighted the acute tension between competing economic ideologies—extreme self-indulgence versus social enterprise—in stark proximity.
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