#302 May – June 2015 merchandising and Maria Kuraeva about the

and Maria Kuraeva about the Los Angeles school that used to be a progressive hub for bad boys

during which the spread of feminist thinking stimulates a new critical awareness that encourages many female artists

is that of Deborah-Joyce Holman

drawing attention to the structural artifice of the white cube and the system of white-supremacist patriarchy in which the whole of high cultural production is circumscribed

This issue’s cover story is dedicated to Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake

#302 May – June 2015 merchandising and Maria Kuraeva about theIn this issue: Martine Syms sits in conversation with Los Angeles based artist Charles Gaines. The question of what is black art is still a legitimate one. The problem before with the identification of any kind of art of the margins was that the solutions being sought were rooted in essentialism. So whatever black art is, it has to be tied to something essential and core. If you just remove the essentialist models, you can ask the question