Mark Lewis

Afterword: Florida Arabesque

owe two texts. The first, something about art, modernity and future utopias, for a Kunstverein in Germany. It’s supposed to be a ‘sequel’ to the modernity and antiquity text I wrote for documenta 12. The second, something about the contemporary condition of images, particularly moving images, to mark the twentieth anniversary of Afterall, the research and publishing project Charles Esche and I founded back in 1999...

Art and Decolonization: Afterall MASP

In collaboration with Museu de Arte de São Paulo we are building a critical forum for cultural theorists, curators and artists to raise questions and formulate proposals for the reinterpretation of exhibitions and museum collections in non-canonical ways.

In Memoriam: Chris Wainwright

Mark Lewis and Kendra Sullivan remember Chris Wainwright

Foreword Afterall Journal issue 32

The Afterall editorial team was in Chicago last month for our first meeting there since Stephanie Smith and the University of Chicago Open Practice Committee and the Smart Museum formally joined the journal as editorial partners. We enjoyed three days of intensive meetings and discussions about art and writing and slowly put together the contents for an upcoming issue.

Foreword Afterall Journal Issue 22

This issue signals a change, and a new beginning for Afterall. After eight years and seventeen issues together, our partnership with Los Angeles comes to an end; we say a very amicable goodbye and good luck to our collaborators at the California Institute for the Arts and a welcoming hello to our new partners at UNIA in Seville.

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