Spring 2026 (12.1)

Features

Repetition, Resistance, and Remembering in the Prints of Elizabeth Catlett

June 15, 2026 / Feature Article

In the Round

In the Galleries

Elizabeth McGoey, Sara Picard

Paper Monument: Sandow Birk’s White Out at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Michaela R. Haffner

Americas in the Making

Sofia Ortega-Guerrero

Baltimore Museum of Art: War and Its Impact in the American Modernism Galleries

Virginia M. G. Anderson

“A Variety of Perspectives”: American Art at the Chrysler

Caroline Culp

Visions of America at Crystal Bridges

Austen Barron Bailly

Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Display at the de Young Museum

Emma Acker

Research Notes

New Archival Evidence on Robert Duncanson from Two Lawsuits: “Taylor vs. Taylor” (1859) and “Succession of Milton Taylor” (1872, 1876)

Katherine Gregory, Chris DeBow

Drive By or Fly Over: Alexander Calder in the Age of Aerial Art

Shannon Bewley

Queer Localities: Space, Class, and Desire in Thomas Painter’s Visual Archive

Alex Del Dago

Colloquium

Call and Response: DEIA Tensions in Scholarship, Practice, and National Identity

Keidra Daniels Navaroli, Frederica Simmons

Confluence: Situating New Beginnings in the Work of Seitu K. Jones

Alexandra Nicome

With Unvarnished Eyes: Indexing Radical Pedagogy in Stephanie Syjuco’s Present Tense (Roll Call) at BAMPFA

Matthew Villar Miranda

Museum Studies Pedagogy as Noncompliance in an Era of Federal Censorship

Ashleigh Dior Coren

HBCU Art Survival in the Wake of Federal Cuts

Aja Roache

Navigating Archival Silences Through Art

Zoe Hume

The #CharlestonStrong Machine

Kamau Pope

Book Reviews

Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture

Rachel Burke

Criticism without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices

Stephen Moonie

Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s

Danielle O’Steen

Voices in Aerosol: Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández

Exhibition Reviews

Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity

Susan H. Edwards

Singing in Unison, Part 13: Homage to Meyer Schapiro

Melissa Rachleff

Alice Adams: Sculpture and Drawings, 1964–2025

Mark L. Hanin

Dyani White Hawk: Love Language

Manon Gaudet