Books

Mark Leckey: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

For Mitch Speed, the interweaving of personal and collective memory in Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore gives voice to the complexities of class and cultural transformation during Britain’s Thatcherite era.

Journal

Autumn/Winter 2019

Afterall is pleased to present our anniversary issue 48, Autumn/Winter 2019 – ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward: 20 Years of Afterall’ – which reflects on changes and fractures in the art world over the last two decades of Afterall journal.

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Building Social Interdependency: Gluklya’s Feminist Practice

Through reviewing Gluklya’s recent exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum, Ana S. González Rueda analyses the artist's feminist approach to collaborative practices.

Online

‘Frida Orupabo and Arthur Jafa – Medicine for a Nightmare’

In response to the exhibition ‘Frida Orupabo and Arthur Jafa– Medicine for a Nightmare’, Shama Khanna considers the mediation of violence and black pain in the art world’s white spaces.

Online

Exhibition Histories Talks: Charles Gaines – video online

Charles Gaines was joined by Louis Hartnoll and John Tain to discuss ‘The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism’, an exhibition that foregrounded questions of structural racism by juxtaposing works by African-American artists with their reception in mainstream arts criticism

Cover image, Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner by Olivier Richon

Books

Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner

Olivier Richon provides a detailed examination of Walker Evans’s now-iconic 1936 photograph Kitchen Corner; in doing so he reveals an unexpected set of visual and literary associations that lie beneath the surface.

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