Issue 9

Issue 9

November 2023

The smoking mother

Artist commission

The smoking mother

The smoking mother
Luis Camnitzer’s ‘A to Cosmopolite’: a site of arbitrariness, bifurcation and contemplation

Journal article

Luis Camnitzer’s ‘A to Cosmopolite’: a site of arbitrariness, bifurcation and contemplation

Luis Camnitzer’s ‘A to Cosmopolite’: a site of arbitrariness, bifurcation and contemplation
The shifting spaces of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s ‘Berlin Files’

Journal article

The shifting spaces of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s ‘Berlin Files’

The shifting spaces of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s ‘Berlin Files’
Interpreting the monochrome: how Li Yuan-chia, Piero Manzoni and Robert Ryman ascribe meaning to their white monochrome surfaces

Journal article

Interpreting the monochrome: how Li Yuan-chia, Piero Manzoni and Robert Ryman ascribe meaning to their white monochrome surfaces

Interpreting the monochrome: how Li Yuan-chia, Piero Manzoni and Robert Ryman ascribe meaning to their white monochrome surfaces
Dreamworks of utopia: Paolo Gasparini’s ‘Karakarakas’

Journal article

Dreamworks of utopia: Paolo Gasparini’s ‘Karakarakas’

Dreamworks of utopia: Paolo Gasparini’s ‘Karakarakas’
Bontaro Dokuyama’s ‘Even After 1,000 Years’

Journal article

Bontaro Dokuyama’s ‘Even After 1,000 Years’

Bontaro Dokuyama’s ‘Even After 1,000 Years’
Issue 8: Drawing

Issue 8: Drawing

June 2023. In collaboration with Drawing Room, London

Equitable ways of being

Introduction

Equitable ways of being

Equitable ways of being
Laughing has 1,000 mothers: the grotesque goddesses of Mary Beth Edelson

Journal article

Laughing has 1,000 mothers: the grotesque goddesses of Mary Beth Edelson

Laughing has 1,000 mothers: the grotesque goddesses of Mary Beth Edelson
Black (re)turn

Artist commission

Black (re)turn

Black (re)turn
Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks: drawings from life

Journal article

Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks: drawings from life

Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks: drawings from life
Disegno vero e disegno finto: truth and drawing in the 1970s

Journal article

Disegno vero e disegno finto: truth and drawing in the 1970s

Disegno vero e disegno finto: truth and drawing in the 1970s
Dialectics and transgressions: Robert Smithson’s cartouche drawings

Journal article

Dialectics and transgressions: Robert Smithson’s cartouche drawings

Dialectics and transgressions: Robert Smithson’s cartouche drawings
Massinissa Selmani

Article commission

Massinissa Selmani

Massinissa Selmani
Drawing out: speculative seriality in Richard Tuttle’s ‘Looking for the Map’


Journal article

Drawing out: speculative seriality in Richard Tuttle’s ‘Looking for the Map’


Drawing out: speculative seriality in Richard Tuttle’s ‘Looking for the Map’

Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions

Journal article

Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions

Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions
Feeling with fingers that see: Simryn Gill’s ‘Naga Doodles’

Journal article

Feeling with fingers that see: Simryn Gill’s ‘Naga Doodles’

Feeling with fingers that see: Simryn Gill’s ‘Naga Doodles’
Knottings, nothings, knots and no things

Artist commission

Knottings, nothings, knots and no things

Knottings, nothings, knots and no things
Drawing on repair: Kang Seung Lee and Ibanjiha’s transpacific queer of colour critique

Journal article

Drawing on repair: Kang Seung Lee and Ibanjiha’s transpacific queer of colour critique

Drawing on repair: Kang Seung Lee and Ibanjiha’s transpacific queer of colour critique
Issue 7

Issue 7

November 2022

Categories and contemporaries: African artists at the Slade School of Fine Art (c.1945–65)

Categories and contemporaries: African artists at the Slade School of Fine Art (c.1945–65)

Categories and contemporaries: African artists at the Slade School of Fine Art (c.1945–65)
Emergent (Crystal Mouths)

Artist commission

Emergent (Crystal Mouths)

Emergent (Crystal Mouths)
From the Harlem Renaissance to Black Dada: Adam Pendleton’s entangled histories

From the Harlem Renaissance to Black Dada: Adam Pendleton’s entangled histories

From the Harlem Renaissance to Black Dada: Adam Pendleton’s entangled histories
Closest to nowhere

Artist commission

Closest to nowhere

Closest to nowhere
Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie

Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie

Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie
Issue 6

Issue 6

June 2022

Communist witches and cyborg magic: the emergence of queer, feminist, esoteric futurism

Article commission

Communist witches and cyborg magic: the emergence of queer, feminist, esoteric futurism

Communist witches and cyborg magic: the emergence of queer, feminist, esoteric futurism
‘I believed in the image’: Pope.L, photography and the spectacle of racial oppression

‘I believed in the image’: Pope.L, photography and the spectacle of racial oppression

‘I believed in the image’: Pope.L, photography and the spectacle of racial oppression
Proposals of critique: Maria Eichhorn’s ‘Building as Unowned Property’ (2017–)

Proposals of critique: Maria Eichhorn’s ‘Building as Unowned Property’ (2017–)

Proposals of critique: Maria Eichhorn’s ‘Building as Unowned Property’ (2017–)
Strained listening: sensing underwater noise pollution in Calder Harben’s ‘Bodies of Water’

Strained listening: sensing underwater noise pollution in Calder Harben’s ‘Bodies of Water’

Strained listening: sensing underwater noise pollution in Calder Harben’s ‘Bodies of Water’
Rules that break other rules: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s ‘candy works’ and the logic of neoliberalism

Rules that break other rules: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s ‘candy works’ and the logic of neoliberalism

Rules that break other rules: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s ‘candy works’ and the logic of neoliberalism
Forests of the mind: spectres of deforestation in contemporary English aesthetics

Forests of the mind: spectres of deforestation in contemporary English aesthetics

Forests of the mind: spectres of deforestation in contemporary English aesthetics
Issue 5: Utopias

Issue 5: Utopias

November 2021

Horse Opera

Artist commission

Horse Opera

Horse Opera
Martha Edelheit’s ‘Flesh Walls’: towards a communal, queer futurity

Martha Edelheit’s ‘Flesh Walls’: towards a communal, queer futurity

Martha Edelheit’s ‘Flesh Walls’: towards a communal, queer futurity
The crisis of artistic conditioning: Mário Pedrosa, Frederico Morais and the avant-garde in Brazil (1966–75)

The crisis of artistic conditioning: Mário Pedrosa, Frederico Morais and the avant-garde in Brazil (1966–75)

The crisis of artistic conditioning: Mário Pedrosa, Frederico Morais and the avant-garde in Brazil (1966–75)
Living extinction: Robert Smithson’s dinosaurs

Living extinction: Robert Smithson’s dinosaurs

Living extinction: Robert Smithson’s dinosaurs
Life inside a system: eco-critical stances in the art of Luis Fernando Benedit, 1968–72

Life inside a system: eco-critical stances in the art of Luis Fernando Benedit, 1968–72

Life inside a system: eco-critical stances in the art of Luis Fernando Benedit, 1968–72
Blockchain manifestos: fighting for the imagination of a culture

Journal article

Blockchain manifestos: fighting for the imagination of a culture

Blockchain manifestos: fighting for the imagination of a culture
Issue 4: Art from Latin America

Issue 4: Art from Latin America

June 2021

We, a part of them: Laura Anderson Barbata and the disassembly of border regimes

We, a part of them: Laura Anderson Barbata and the disassembly of border regimes

We, a part of them: Laura Anderson Barbata and the disassembly of border regimes
Worldviews: indigenous artists, informants and the rhetoric of decolonisation in Paraguay

Worldviews: indigenous artists, informants and the rhetoric of decolonisation in Paraguay

Worldviews: indigenous artists, informants and the rhetoric of decolonisation in Paraguay
‘Sorprendente hallazgo’ (‘Chance find’): Alan Glass and contemporary Surrealism in Mexico

‘Sorprendente hallazgo’ (‘Chance find’): Alan Glass and contemporary Surrealism in Mexico

‘Sorprendente hallazgo’ (‘Chance find’): Alan Glass and contemporary Surrealism in Mexico
Mixing fiction and reality: the parafictional history of Dora Longo Bahia’s ‘Do Campo a Cidade’ (2010)

Mixing fiction and reality: the parafictional history of Dora Longo Bahia’s ‘Do Campo a Cidade’ (2010)

Mixing fiction and reality: the parafictional history of Dora Longo Bahia’s ‘Do Campo a Cidade’ (2010)
The Instagram counter-archive: Guadalupe Rosales, Graciela Iturbide and Chicana representation across borders

The Instagram counter-archive: Guadalupe Rosales, Graciela Iturbide and Chicana representation across borders

The Instagram counter-archive: Guadalupe Rosales, Graciela Iturbide and Chicana representation across borders
Issue 3

Issue 3

June 2020

Postmodern pentecostalism: apocalyptic time in the paintings of Michael Stevenson

Postmodern pentecostalism: apocalyptic time in the paintings of Michael Stevenson

Postmodern pentecostalism: apocalyptic time in the paintings of Michael Stevenson
Adrian Piper’s ‘Indexical Present’ in the work of Arthur Jafa

Adrian Piper’s ‘Indexical Present’ in the work of Arthur Jafa

Adrian Piper’s ‘Indexical Present’ in the work of Arthur Jafa
Side by side: Al Freeman’s art history

Side by side: Al Freeman’s art history

Side by side: Al Freeman’s art history
Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South

Article commission

Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South

Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South
The window washer and the DJ: reflections on Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s ‘Le Baiser / The Kiss’

The window washer and the DJ: reflections on Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s ‘Le Baiser / The Kiss’

The window washer and the DJ: reflections on Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s ‘Le Baiser / The Kiss’
New York’s downtown in Dan Colen’s and Dash Snow’s ‘nests’

New York’s downtown in Dan Colen’s and Dash Snow’s ‘nests’

New York’s downtown in Dan Colen’s and Dash Snow’s ‘nests’
Issue 2

Issue 2

November 2019

Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP’s ‘Workers!’: renewing the aesthetics and politics of 1970s feminism

Journal article

Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP’s ‘Workers!’: renewing the aesthetics and politics of 1970s feminism

Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP’s ‘Workers!’: renewing the aesthetics and politics of 1970s feminism
Between species: animal-human collaboration in contemporary art

Between species: animal-human collaboration in contemporary art

Between species: animal-human collaboration in contemporary art
Keith Kennedy’s group photography and the therapeutic gaze of Jo Spence and Rosy Martin

Keith Kennedy’s group photography and the therapeutic gaze of Jo Spence and Rosy Martin

Keith Kennedy’s group photography and the therapeutic gaze of Jo Spence and Rosy Martin
The aesthetics of labour: beauty and politics in Adrian Paci’s ‘The Column’

The aesthetics of labour: beauty and politics in Adrian Paci’s ‘The Column’

The aesthetics of labour: beauty and politics in Adrian Paci’s ‘The Column’
Cut-outs and ‘silent companions’: theatricality and satire in Lubaina Himid’s ‘A Fashionable Marriage’

Cut-outs and ‘silent companions’: theatricality and satire in Lubaina Himid’s ‘A Fashionable Marriage’

Cut-outs and ‘silent companions’: theatricality and satire in Lubaina Himid’s ‘A Fashionable Marriage’
Issue 1

Issue 1

May 2019

Bruce Nauman: queer homophobia

Journal article

Bruce Nauman: queer homophobia

Bruce Nauman: queer homophobia
Creativity of practice in African townships: a framework for performance art

Journal article

Creativity of practice in African townships: a framework for performance art

Creativity of practice in African townships: a framework for performance art
Early YBA videos and their disobedient prehistory

Journal article

Early YBA videos and their disobedient prehistory

Early YBA videos and their disobedient prehistory
Patterns and Pictures: strategies of appropriation, 1975–85

Journal article

Patterns and Pictures: strategies of appropriation, 1975–85

Patterns and Pictures: strategies of appropriation, 1975–85
Mining Colombian contemporary art: histories, scales and techniques of gold extraction

Journal article

Mining Colombian contemporary art: histories, scales and techniques of gold extraction

Mining Colombian contemporary art: histories, scales and techniques of gold extraction
Intent in the making: the life of Zoe Leonard’s ‘Strange Fruit’

Intent in the making: the life of Zoe Leonard’s ‘Strange Fruit’

Intent in the making: the life of Zoe Leonard’s ‘Strange Fruit’
A new art magazine for the internet

A new art magazine for the internet

Introducing Burlington Contemporary

Before Burlington Contemporary: A new art journal for the internet

Before Burlington Contemporary: A new art journal for the internet

Before Burlington Contemporary: A new art journal for the internet
Burlington Contemporary Questionnaire

Burlington Contemporary Questionnaire

Burlington Contemporary Questionnaire