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Offers considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. This title features essays on art history and critical theory. It looks at the interest in performance and gesture amongst contemporary artists working across a range of media.

A journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context.

In Jeff Koons¿s One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal structure. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s--but also described (by such critics as Craig Owens, Rosalind Krauss, and Hal Foster) as "an endgame, " "misleading, " and "repulsive." The work presents what the artist called "the ultimate state of being"--neither death ...

One of the defining paintings of British Pop art, Richard Hamilton¿s Swingeing London 67 (f) depicts two men--Mick Jagger and Hamilton¿s art dealer Robert Fraser--handcuffed together in the back of a police van. The image is taken from a newspaper photograph that shows the two being driven from Lewes prison to Chichester Magistrates Court following their June 1967 arrest for possession of drugs. The title is a clever and bitter play on words, ...

In Sanja Ivekovi 's Triangle ( Trokut, 1979), four black-and-white photographs and written text capture an eighteen-minute performance from May 10, 1979. On that date, a motorcade carrying Josip Broz Tito, then president of Yugoslavia, drove through the streets of downtown Zagreb. As the President's limousine passed beneath her apartment, Ivokevic began simulating masturbation on her balcony. Although she could not be seen from the street, she...

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A study of Boetti's 1988 work Mappa, a tapestry map of the pre-postcommunist world made of brightly colored, painstakingly woven national flags, illustrated with many color images.

An extended illustrated account of Hollis Frampton's film exposing the fragility of cinema, marking a critical moment in art history when photography meets filmmaking.

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Offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. This journal features essays on art history and critical theory.

An illustrated examination of a 1995 work by Mike Kelley that marked a significant change in his work.One of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) produced a body of innovative work mining American popular culture as well as modernist and postmodernist art—relentless examinations of subjectivity and of society that are both sinister and ecstatic. With a wide range of media, Kelley's work explores themes as varied as...

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A richly illustrated study of Marc Chaimowicz's groundbreaking 1972 post-Pop installation-performance piece Celebration? Realife.

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Issue 42 of Afterall addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on how they each intervene into biological and political systems. We also put a spotlight on the contributions of two lesser-known women artists--Indonesian Arahmaiani and Egyptian Inji Efflatoun--and their capacity to speak truth to power in their respective contexts. Finally, accompanying essays inc...

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A critical close-up of Warhol's famous film and its cultural impact