Art and Performance
- Four Metaphors of Modernism From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme Jenny Anger 2018 Spring
- Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art
- The Truth Is Always Grey A History of Modernist Painting Frances Guerin 2018 Spring
- Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
- A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring
- How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
- Hard Bodies Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture Andreas Marks 2017 Fall
- It’s an art nearly as old as civilization itself—with a twenty-first century attitude
- Body Modern Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject Michael Sappol 2017 Spring
- An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity
- Asking the Audience Participatory Art in 1980s New York Adair Rounthwaite 2017 Spring
- How participatory art enabled collaboration between institutions and politicized artists in 1980s New York
- The Stakes of Exposure Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art Namiko Kunimoto 2017 Spring
- The first major English-language study of Japan’s most important postwar artists
- Mirror Affect Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art Cristina Albu 2016 Fall
- Examining reflective art and its impact on how we see ourselves and fellow spectators
- The Art of Cooking Martha Rosler 2016 Fall
- A crucial unpublished art historical document
- René Magritte Selected Writings René Magritte 2016 Fall
- An indispensable literary complement to the paintings of René Magritte—the first collected in a single volume
- Repainting the Walls of Lunda Information Colonialism and Angolan Art Delinda Collier 2016 Spring
- Untangles, yet complicates, a tale of African art from rural dwelling to the World Wide Web
- Becoming Past History in Contemporary Art Jane Blocker 2015 Fall
- A brilliantly argued call for the presence of time and history in art today
- The Art of Wonder Inspiration, Creativity, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Editor 2015 Fall
- The setup was open-ended and deceptively simple: muse about art and the nature of creativity and wonder
- Barry Le Va The Aesthetic Aftermath Michael Maizels 2015 Fall
- A pioneering study of one of contemporary art’s most compelling artists—and a new window on an era of social unrest
- Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall
- How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one