Issue 9

Issue 9

November 2023

The smoking mother — The smoking mother

by Laure Prouvost

The smoking mother

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

by Ivy Haoying Huang

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

by Aneta Trajkoski

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

by Maia Tacey

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’ — Dreamworks of utopia: Paolo Gasparini’s ‘Karakarakas’

by Clara Maria Apostolatos

Dreamworks of utopia: Paolo Gasparini’s ‘Karakarakas’

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

by Jason Waite

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 — Equitable ways of being

by Kate Macfarlane

Equitable ways of being

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

by Clelia Rebecchi

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

Black (re)turn — Black (re)turn

by Jade de Montserrat

Black (re)turn

Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks: drawings from life — Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks: drawings from life

by Tanya Bentley

Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks: drawings from life

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

by Filippo Bosco

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

Dialectics and transgressions: Robert Smithson’s cartouche drawings — Dialectics and transgressions: Robert Smithson’s cartouche drawings

by Teresa Hantke

Dialectics and transgressions: Robert Smithson’s cartouche drawings

Massinissa Selmani — Massinissa Selmani

by Roger Malbert

Massinissa Selmani

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

by Laura Lake Smith

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

Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions — Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions

by Karen Kurczynski

Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions

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

by Emilia Terracciano

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

Knottings, nothings, knots and no things — Knottings, nothings, knots and no things

by Emma McNally

Knottings, nothings, knots and no things

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

by Jung Joon Lee

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)

by Gabriella Nugent

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

Emergent (Crystal Mouths) — Emergent (Crystal Mouths)

by Harold Offeh

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

by Kathryn Brown

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

Closest to nowhere — Closest to nowhere

by Adjoa Armah

Closest to nowhere

Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie — Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie

by Jacob Badcock

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

by Amy Hale

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

by Martyna Ewa Majewska

‘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–)

by Adela Kim

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’

by Chanelle Lalonde

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

by Niko Vicario

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

by Laura Ouillon

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

Issue 5: Utopias

Issue 5: Utopias

November 2021

Horse Opera — Horse Opera

by Moyra Davey

Horse Opera

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

by Chiara Mannarino

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)

by Marcelo Mari

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

by Suzaan Boettger

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

by Vanessa Badagliacca

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 — Blockchain manifestos: fighting for the imagination of a culture

by Charlotte Kent

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

by Madeline Murphy Turner

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

by Sofia Gotti

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

by Abigail Susik, Kristoffer Noheden

‘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)

by Corey Dzenko

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

by Caroline Tracey

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

by Anna Parlane

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

by Isabel Parkes

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

by Taylor Walsh

Side by side: Al Freeman’s art history

Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South — Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South

by Hannah Collins

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’

by Isabelle Loring Wallace

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’

by Grace Linden

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

by Victoria Horne

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

by Chad Elias

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

by George Vasey

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’

by Sarah Messerschmidt

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’

by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd

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 — Bruce Nauman: queer homophobia

by Julia Bryan-Wilson

Bruce Nauman: queer homophobia

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

by Massa Lemu

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

Early YBA videos and their disobedient prehistory — Early YBA videos and their disobedient prehistory

by Michael Bracewell

Early YBA videos and their disobedient prehistory

Patterns and Pictures: strategies of appropriation, 1975–85 — Patterns and Pictures: strategies of appropriation, 1975–85

by Jenni Sorkin

Patterns and Pictures: strategies of appropriation, 1975–85

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

by Ana Bilbao

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’

by Nina Quabeck

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

by Martha Barratt

Before Burlington Contemporary: A new art journal for the internet

Burlington Contemporary Questionnaire — Burlington Contemporary Questionnaire

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Burlington Contemporary Questionnaire