CAA 2025

The MIT Press @ CAA 2025

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Endangered Languages

Evangelia Adamou

August 6, 2024

Sanya Kantarovsky

George Baker, Isabelle Graw, Sanya Kantarovsky, Jamieson Webster

October 29, 2024

The Cities We Need

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

August 27, 2024

War and Aesthetics

Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, Christine Strandmose Toft

June 18, 2024

Dressing Up

Elizabeth L. Block

October 19, 2021

Beyond Vanity

Elizabeth L. Block

September 10, 2024

Devotion

Garrett Bradley

February 27, 2024

Dis…Miss Gender?

Anne Bray

October 24, 2023

Autotheories

Alex Brostoff, Vilashini Cooppan

February 18, 2025

Black Elegies

Kimberly Juanita Brown

February 18, 2025

Mortevivum

Kimberly Juanita Brown

February 6, 2024

Gerhard Richter

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

September 6, 2022

Exit Interview

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster

April 23, 2024

A Black Gaze

Tina M. Campt

March 21, 2023

Also Known As

Michelle JaJa Chang, Jesús Vassallo

November 12, 2024

The New Television

Rachel Churner, Rebecca Cleman, Tyler Maxin

December 31, 2024

Raven Chacon

Alison Coplan, Katya García-Antón, Stefanie Hessler

August 6, 2024

Blotter

Erik Davis

April 30, 2024

Activism

Afonso Dias Ramos, Tom Snow

October 24, 2023

Other Influences

Marcella Durand, Jennifer Firestone

October 29, 2024

Designing Motherhood

Michelle Millar Fisher, Amber Winick, Alexandra Lange

September 14, 2021

Fail Better

Hal Foster

February 25, 2025

Facing Black Star

Thierry Gervais, Vincent Lavoie

June 13, 2023

Living Surfaces

Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Jussi Parikka

June 25, 2024

The Future Is Present

Philip Glahn, Cary Levine

June 18, 2024

Glitchy Vision

Amanda K. Greene

November 19, 2024

Walking

Tom Jeffreys

August 6, 2024

David Hammons

Kellie Jones

January 28, 2025

After Eating

Lindsay Kelley

December 5, 2023

Magda Stawarska

Omar Kholeif, Lubaina Himid

August 20, 2024

A Book about Ray

Ellen Levy

October 15, 2024

Beatriz da Costa

Daniela Lieja Quintanar

September 24, 2024

Tactical Publishing

Alessandro Ludovico, Nick Montfort

January 16, 2024

Peter Weibel

Jens Lutz, Philipp Ziegler, Clara Runge, Stephanie Stadler, Patrick Trappendreher

August 6, 2024

Why I Do What I Do

Steven Henry Madoff, Andrea Lissoni, Defne Ayes, Hendrik Folkerts, Kate Fowle, Hou Hanru, Catherine Nichols, Maria Belén Saéz de Ibarra, Claire Tancons, Martin Guinard, Raqs Media Collective, ruangrupa, Raimundas Malašauskas, Zoe Butt, Udo Kittelmann, Bernardo de Souza, Anselm Franke, Nikita Choi, Hoor al Qasimi

October 22, 2024

Melancholy Wedgwood

Iris Moon

January 23, 2024

An Anthology of Blackness

Terresa Moses, Omari Souza, Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

April 1, 2025

Voidopolis

Kat Mustatea, Charlotte Kent, Arielle Saiber

August 22, 2023

Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen, Anthony Downey

August 20, 2024

Feminist Designer

Alison Place

September 5, 2023

Ridykeulous Presents

Ridykeulous

March 11, 2025

Art for Coexistence

Christine Ross

November 22, 2022

The Lies of the Artists

Ingrid D. Rowland

December 17, 2024

Double Vision

Rebekah Rutkoff

August 27, 2024

In Visible Presence

Oksana Sarkisova, Olga Shevchenko

October 3, 2023

Monumental Graffiti

Rafael Schacter

October 1, 2024

Cheyney Thompson

Christian Schaernack, Ben Caton

May 23, 2023

Music from Elsewhere

Doug Skinner

December 3, 2024

Art as Demonstration

Sven Spieker

February 6, 2024

Climate Propagandas

Jonas Staal

September 17, 2024

Gender(s)

Kathryn Bond Stockton

August 31, 2021

Oceans

Pandora Syperek, Sarah Wade

June 20, 2023

Time Machines

Richard Taws

January 21, 2025

Decolonizing Design

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Ene Agi

February 14, 2023

Speculation

Marina Vishmidt

June 20, 2023

Against Reason

James Voorhies

October 8, 2024

Postsensual Aesthetics

James Voorhies

February 28, 2023

Computational Formalism

Amanda Wasielewski

May 23, 2023

Emergency Money

Tom Wilkinson

January 23, 2024

Lost Days, Endless Nights

Andrew Witt

January 14, 2025

Interrogative Design

Ian Wojtowicz

December 17, 2024

Journals

African Arts

African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue. The journal offers readers peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning a striking range of art forms and visual cultures of the world’s second-largest continent and its diasporas, as well as special thematic issues, book and exhibition reviews, features on museum collections, exhibition previews, artist portfolios, photo essays, contemporary dialogues, and editorials.

ARTMargins

ARTMargins publishes material related to the histories of 20th-century and contemporary art, art theory, art institutions, and curatorship. It places special emphasis on marginal histories and innovative critical and methodological perspectives. The editors are particularly interested in submissions that consider art within sociocultural, political, and theoretical contexts. They also welcome attention to the work of artists and art thinkers who work outside of English-speaking and official circuits. Submissions may consider, among other things, questions pertaining to art and politics, periodization and historicization—including the contemporary—sovereignty, post colonialism, decolonization, the notion of the global, and/or the transition from and towards socialism.

CriticalProductive Journal is an independent, peer-reviewed academic journal / magazine. It is a space in which cultural theorists, designers, architects, urbanists, artists, humanists, and activists can reflect on contemporary culture and experiment with provocative ideas, such as how to disrupt normative paradigms, how to activate and catalyze new potentials, and how best to utilize technology, data, and moving image to convey information.

We publish innovative research, scholarship, and creative work that is at the forefront of architecture, urbanism, and cultural theory. We welcome essays, creative design work, and visual art.

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Design Issues

The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book and exhibition reviews, and visual sequences. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as design history, human-computer interface, service design, organization design, design for development, and product design methodology.

 

Grey Room

Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of current aesthetic and critical debates. Featuring original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges, Grey Room emphasizes aesthetic practice and historical and theoretical discourse that appeals to a wide range of readers, including architects, artists, scholars, students, and critics.

 

Leonardo

Leonardo is the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology.

Leonardo is interested in work that crosses the artificial boundaries separating contemporary arts and sciences. Featuring illustrated articles written by artists about their own work as well as articles by historians, theoreticians, philosophers and other researchers, the journal is particularly concerned with issues related to the interaction of the arts, sciences and technology.

October

At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation.

Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, and provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today’s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.