Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor
Rights of Passage
Letter from the Editor
Rights of Passage
Art21 executive director and chief curator Tina Kukielski introduces the spring issue, reflecting on the importance of access to culture and the power of art and artists to expand access to healthcare, education, and more.
Letter from the Editor
Living in an Age of Empathy
Letter from the Editor
Living in an Age of Empathy
Curator Yvette Mutumba discusses how biased empathy can be problematic, but when understood as a means of inclusive human solidarity, empathy can lead to a greater understanding of the issues troubling the world today.
Letter from the Editor
Rust in Detroit: Ingenuity, Process, and Natural Order
Letter from the Editor
Rust in Detroit: Ingenuity, Process, and Natural Order
Art21 Magazine’s first co-guest editors, curators Laura Mott and Taylor Renee Aldridge, introduce the issue’s theme: “Rust,” and its complicated relationship to the city of Detroit.
Letter from the Editor
On the Power of Art and Challenging Cultural Inequity
Letter from the Editor
On the Power of Art and Challenging Cultural Inequity
Artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez introduces the “Momentum” issue with a call to action: end cultural inequity by challenging the art world’s existing power structures.
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Lee Plested
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Lee Plested
Curator Lee Plested joins Art21 Magazine as guest editor for the final 2016 issue, “Place Part II,” investigating notions of place with an emphasis on the art and artists in Vancouver and Chicago.
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chris Sharp
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chris Sharp
Writer and curator Chris Sharp joins ART21 Magazine as guest editor of the September/October issue “Place Part I,” explored with a focus on art and artists in Mexico City and Los Angeles.
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir
“Aptitude for war is aptitude for movement,” said Napoleon, as quoted by Paul Virilio in his book, Speed and Politics.1 Virilio explains that “violence can be reduced to nothing but movement.”2 …
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
“All art is in revolution of tyranny.” —Atticus Our recent revolutionary movements feel… deflated. We tell ourselves “things aren’t that bad right?” and the fight we need to make change …
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low
To be ruined is to be spoiled beyond repair. It is “downfall, complete destruction, overthrow.” Ruin is the Tower card in the tarot deck—upheaval and harsh displacement, lightning striking, an …