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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Big Bang • Cornelia Parker reflects on collaborating with the British Army to create one of her best-known sculptural installations.

Liberation, Invention, Reinvention • A conversation on the history, poetry, and ambivalence surrounding Black inventors.

High Noon • An artist with years of experience wonders what “emerging” might mean to semantically adventurous minds.

Rosa Bonheur • The Horse Fair, 1852–55

Ambiguity Embodied • Charles Ray’s interrogatory sculptures have secured him a place in the postwar art pantheon.

Fire Breather • In a new collection of essays, Gary Indiana savages American culture and politics.

Books in Brief

Spread the Wealth • These artists are playing Robin Hood with the art market.

NEW TALENT • Working with a global group of critics and curators, the editors of Art in America selected ten exciting artists to watch—all of them featured in “New Talent” profiles in the pages that follow. Also included are a critical essay on one of today’s major trends and a pair of roundtables in which emerging artists discuss their evolving relationships with history and tradition.

LIAO WEN • A Chinese sculptor models the body with reference to Greek myth and contemporary dislocation.

ALEXANDER SI • In witty installations, an artist plays anthropologist, studying white culture of the recent past.

ASTRID TERRAZAS • An artist’s painted incantations combine personal mythologies and social allegories.

LAURIE KANG • A Toronto photographer ditches the image, turning her medium into a material.

SUNEIL SANZGIRI • An experimental filmmaker looks back at India’s anticolonial histories.

KRISTI CAVATARO • A New York–based artist pushes the traditional technique of stained glass into strikingly new sculptural directions.

HODA KASHIHA • An artist’s collage-like paintings evoke the space of the screen.

WIDLINE CADET • A photographer explores how images echo across time and space.

ASMA • A Mexico City–based duo plays with the iconography of fantasy and fairy tales.

DIANA SOFIA LOZANO • A sculptor challenges classification with fantastic flora.

ON OPACITY • Many artists today resist “representation” and cross-cultural legibility. But the task poses countless challenges.

REVERSE SHOT • Artists discuss making experimental films after colonialism.

DOWN dialogues THE LINE • Four artists discuss how we might redefine cultural lineage.

Thames & Hudson • new books for spring

“Slip Zone” • Dallas Museum of Art

“Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities” • Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston and Medford, Mass.

Stephanie Syjuco • Ryan Lee, New York

Nikita Gale • 52 Walker, New York

Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe • Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Quay Quinn Wolf • Jack Barrett, New York

Mimi Park • Lubov, New York

“Assembly Required” • Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

EJ Hill • Oxy Arts, Los Angeles

Yeni Mao • Campeche, Mexico City

Aşe Erkmen • Dirimart, Istanbul

Q&A • with Annika Finne, PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and assistant conservator at Modern Art Conservation