Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Twenty-first Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Benson, Madalen, C., "Land-Based Relations: Art and its Contestations with Settler State Law and Property Regimes" (1989–2024) (University of California, Santa Cruz, Tj. Demos)

Buist, Colin, "The Dematerialization of AIDS (on Robert Blanchon, Charles Lum, and Doug Ischar)" (University of Toronto, J. P. Ricco)

Emser, Nicole, "A Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art" (Temple University, A. Patel)

Engel, Deena, "Machine Learning in Art: Making, Collecting, Conserving" (Bard Graduate Center, J. L. Mass, I. Gaskell)

Ernst, Michael, "Visual Culture & Spaces of Nationalism and Islamic Identity in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan" (Temple University, E. Neumeier, T. Cooper)

Foran, Colleen, "At the Intersection of Ritual, Procession, and Performance Art: Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana" (Boston University, C. Becker)

Hampton, Steven, "Dictator Kitsch and the Iraq War" (University of California, Riverside, P. Morton, J Weems)

Kugo, Kasumi, "Are Bure Boke—The Theory and Practice of Photographic Publications in 1960s' and 1970s' Japan" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg, J. Kirkwood)

Maher, Liam, "Queer Eschatologies: Transubstantiation in Contemporary Art of the Americas" (Temple University, M. Alvarez)

Mapstone, Molly, "Mediating Vision and Negotiating Narratives: Contemporary U.S. Installation Art and Its Expanding Publics, 1966–2019" (Temple University, E. Pauwels, A.Patel)

Mickle, Allie, "Picturing the Factory of the World: Artists’ Cinema, China and Global Commodity Chains" (Ohio State University, E. Levin)

Petit, Yann, "Relocating Dan Masks and Masquerades" (Columbia University, Z. Strother)

Renaudie, Zoë, "Conserver l'éphémère: les Humanités Numériques pour la documentation de l'exposition" (University of Montreal, E. Château-Dutier)

Riddle, April, "Art Games: Playing Finance Capitalism on and off Screen" (Ohio State University, K. Paulsen)

Ruoppo, Althea, "Places of Assemblage: The Transnational German Sculpture of Isa Genzken, Reinhard Mucha, and Rosemarie Trockel" (Boston University, G. Williams, K. Sichel)

Schollenberger, Emily, "Shifting Sediments: Photography, Memory, and Imperial Landscapes in Contemporary Art" (Temple University, E. Pauwels, M. Alvarez)

Schwartz, Stacy, "Unsettling Authenticity: Renegotiating Contemporary Identities and Cultural Trauma in Post-Jewish Art" (University of California, Santa Cruz, Murray D. C.)

Vaughn, Maggie, "Mapping Globalization in the Art of Guillermo Kuitca, Susan Stockwell, and Tiffany Chung" (University of Kansas, D. Cateforis, M. Kaneko)