Art in America

Art in America, the world’s premier art magazine, delivers in-depth coverage of the global contemporary art scene. Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today’s leading artists, curators and historians.

Art in America

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CONTRIBUTORS

Departments

The Brief • Highlights from around the globe—including appointments, awards, acquisitions, and institutional news for July and August.

PEOPLE

Courtney McClellan • An Atlanta-based conceptual artist mocks the mock trial.

Teju Cole • The writer, whose photobook Golden Apple of the Sun and essay collection Black Paper are forthcoming, discusses precision in the humanities, along with related interests.

Fatness and Feminism • A conversation on unruly bodies in painting and in literature.

Table for One • As social life resumes, feelings of isolation intensify.

Seeing Blackly • Tina Campt’s new book shows what Blackness brings to perception.

Data and Detail • An experiment in the digital humanities seeks to shift the scale of art historical analysis.

SUBURBAN UNDERGROUND • Shary Flenniken’s radical comic Trots and Bonnie brought feminism to the pages of National Lampoon.

INDEPENDENT TOGETHER • Last year’s crisis pushed independent art book publishers to shift business models and recommit to community-oriented ideals.

OF LIGHT & FOLDS • In Etel Adnan’s artist’s books, her writings and paintings become one.

THE ART OF THE CON • In recent fiction, the art world has come to represent the worst impulses of the world at large.

AFTER THE PLAGUE CAME THE RENAISSANCE • Renaissance studies offer hope to our morally fraught “post-coronial” era.

POST-SPIRITUAL ABSTRACTION • No longer viewed as purely formal, abstraction has now entered the arena of social, political, and religious issues.

KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED • in the STUDIO

Sonya Clark • Exhibitions in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and Washington

DAVID HAMMONS • Drawing Center

AARON GILBERT AND MARTIN WONG • P.P.O.W

BEVERLY BUCHANAN • Andrew Edlin

RAY JOHNSON • David Zwirner

KATIE BELL • Spencer Brownstone

MINDY ROSE SCHWARTZ • Interstate Projects

Faith Ringgold • Glenstone

SIDONY O’NEAL • Veronica

Prints & Editions

Hands On • A.i.A. Hangs with the People Who Handle the Art