Seeing Sheela Gowda’s of all people in Bangalore
Cara Manes on Sheela Gowda’s complex and multidisciplinary practice.
Unpacking Barr’s Library: The Paper Trail from the Bauhaus to VKhUTEMAS
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. made a trip to Russia in 1927-28 to investigate the avant-garde, meeting with several Vkhutemas faculty while he was there.
Picturing Cuba
Sarah Meister explores photography’s capacity to represent temporal dislocations.
Toward a Museum of Incommensurables
How does art history deal with the radical diversity of objects it encompasses?
Magazines As Sites of Intersection: A New Look at the Bauhaus and VKhUTEMAS
This essay argues that the Bauhaus and VKhUTEMAS operated independently of each other, with choice moments of mutual exchange, focusing on the site of the avant-garde magazine as evidence of this.
Conversation: Dmitry Vilensky with Ksenia Nouril
A major publication, Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology, presents key voices of this period that have been reevaluating the significance of the socialist legacy.
Kingelez Visionnaire
The sculptures of Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948-2015) offer a vision of a future modernity that is beautiful, harmonious, and functional.
When Jean Arp’s Form Met Communist Function in a GDR Motorcycle
Karl Clauss Dietel conceived a motorcycle in the GDR in 1967. As a result of its flexible design principles, it still runs today.
Restaging Disappearance: The Missing Archives of Studios Korda
Karen Grimson comments on the inaccessibility of national archives in Cuba and questions art’s ability to contest censorship and battle the state of “disinformation” that has afflicted Cuban society for decades.
Two Biennials: The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence and We Don’t Need Another Hero
Roxana Marcoci records her impressions of the 10th annual Berlin Biennale and offers a comparative perspective with Manifesta 12 in Palermo.
An Educator’s Report on Dhaka Art Summit and “Where is Space”
Lyn Hsieh reflects on education strategies she encountered during the C-MAP Asia group trip to India and Bangladesh in January 2018.
Curating the Yugoslav Identity: The Reconstruction of Skopje
The history of the reconstruction of the Macedonian capital Skopje, after a devastating earthquake in 1963, is at this point firmly associated with the role played by the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and his Brutalist contributions to the cityscape. But Maja Babić turns her attention to the Ottoman heritage of the city, which she argues was largely disregarded in Skopje’s efforts to assert its “political modernization.”