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.

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Kang Seung Lee • With conceptual acts of preservation, the artist honors the legacies of his queer predecessors.

Horace D. Ballard • The recently appointed Harvard Art Museums curator discusses creative intentionality and life beyond Covid-19, along with related interests.

The Lives of the Party • For twenty years, the assume vivid astro focus collective has brought color, movement, and joy to social practice.

Fools for Love • The need for approval can trap you in the churn of biennials and otherart-world scams.

Language Learning • A conversation on the systems uniting symbols and sounds.

The Artist as Publisher • Adam Pendleton’s recent book projects suggest that his multidisciplinary practice is also a kind of anthology.

Body Language • A new study explores how fin-de-siècle artists used posture to convey emerging understandings of human psychology.

THE SOUTH is A PLACE of TRANSFOR-MATION • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts curator Valerie Cassel Oliver explains the dynamism of Southern culture and argues for its central place in America’s future.

STAYING SOUTH • These days, more and more artists who exhibit internationally are remaining in or returning to the American South, where the region’s communities, histories, and materials have become essential to their work.

CITY BEAU TIFUL

JAMMIE HOLMES • JUST WEST OF DOWNTOWN DALLAS IS the city’s former industrial district, which was until recently one of the few places in town to rent a cheap studio or run an exhibition space. These days, the Dallas Contemporary museum plus several galleries—Conduit, Craighead Green, and Barry Whistler—are among the few remaining art venues there, now that the neighborhood’s main street has been changed from Industrial Boulevard to Riverfront Boulevard.

No Man Is an Island • John Donne’s famous line didn’t apply to 17th-century slaves. But in their work Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Sheldon Scott keep alive the memory of the African diaspora in communities of color in the American South.

Southern Appeal • Bo Bartlett’s realist paintings were inspired by Andrew Wyeth and Norman Rockwell—and have motivated painters like Amy Sherald—but he’s never impressed critics. So why does his work get so much attention in the South?

ADLER GUERRIER • The Miami-based artist discusses capturing the sweetness of the South.

ASSEMBLAGE & INHERITANCE • For centuries, Black communities in New Orleans have cultivated a tradition of assemblage, transforming everyday materials into sacred objects and spaces.

Jacob Lawrence • Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Martine Syms • Bridget Donahue, New York

“Dürer and After” • Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Cady Noland • Galerie Buchholz, New York

Mary Lee Bendolph • Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York

Michael Richards • Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida

Ilana Harris-Babou • Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

José Guadalupe Garza • High Low Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Rosha Yaghmai • Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles

Shane Cotton • The Dowse, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

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