Art Journal

Art Journal, Spring 2007

In This Issue

Patricia C. Phillips

The Exquisite and Urgent Importance of Art

Features

Matthew Gehring

Words of Art

Rachel Weiss

Visions, Valves, and Vestiges: The Curdled Victories of the Bienal de La Habana

Robert Blackson

Once More . . With Feeling: Reenactment in Contemporary Art and Culture

Thematic Investigation: Alternate Modes of Distribution

Organized by Gwen Allen and Cherise Smith

Gwen Allen and Cherise Smith

Publishing Art: Alternative Distribution in Print

Cherise Smith

Re-member the Audience: Adrian Piper’s Mythic Being Advertisements

Arnold J. Kemp

Trueblack

David E. Little

Colab Takes a Piece, History Takes It Back: Collectivity and New York Alternative Spaces

Slop Art co-laborers Adriane Herman and Brian Reeves, with Rent-an-Art-Historian’s Chris Thompson, PHD

Special Corporate Self-Aggrandizement Section

Gwen Allen

Interview with Seth Price

Seth Price

Excerpts from Title Variable

Features

Barbara J. Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid, with Patricia C. Phillips

Emerging Issues in Contemporary Design: A Roundtable

Sarah Oppenheimer

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Reviews

Stephen Melville on J. M. Bernstein, Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting; Ikem Stanley Okoye on Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa; and Courtney J. Martin on David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce, eds., Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain

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