AICA-USA MAGAZINE
AICA-USA MAGAZINE
AICA's magazine represents a selection of new and historical criticism by, about, and for art writers. Proposals for submissions are accepted at info@aicausa.org.
SERIES
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The Art Critic Fellowship is an art writing intensive program launched in 2025. Over eight weeks, fellows engaged in four lectures led by award-winning editors and writers to discuss the joys and concerns of writing and editing art criticism today, and met one-on-one with their assigned mentors to develop a piece of criticism for publication on AICA-USA’s Magazine.
Every Day is a House Party: the Grief and Joy of Parenthood in Heather Owen’s Art by Amy Kennedy
But Still—The River by Kit Xiong
Carrying Grief and Love at the Same Time with Artist vanessa german by Emily Alesandrini
Dreaming While Awake: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Sovereign by May Howard
Lines on Concrete: Najja Moon at Tunnel Projects by Francess Archer Dunbar
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The Art Writing Workshop is a partnership between The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and AICA-USA. This program pairs ten emerging art writers with eminent voices in the field, facilitating deep critical engagement with art in regions across the US. 2020 Art Writing Workshop participants were invited to contribute a piece of writing that emerged from their work in the program for publication with AICA-USA's online magazine.
Floral Facades by Kayla Anderson
Marvelous Survival: 20 Years of SITAC by Kimberlee Córdova
On Rage and Silenceby Charlene K. Lau
2020-2021: Art Amidst Chaos by Rehema C. Barber
In Praise of Meandering by Eva Recinos
Interviews with Art Writers on Writing Art by Danni Shen
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Art Critics on Emergencyis a real-time collective diary by AICA-USA members about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on art critics, artists, arts institutions, art education, and the arts at large. AICA-USA members are invited to submit journalistic reflections and critical observations about this moment as it unfolds.
#1 - Cooking in a Time of Plague by J. Patrice Marandel
#2 - Thoughts in and on Quarantine by Janina Ciezadlo
#3 - Corona Time in SoHo by Ilka Scobie
#4 - Bette Alexander by David Berger
#5 - Thoughts on Doom by Eleanor Heartney
#6 - The Virtual Critic: A Thought Experiment by Franklin Einspruch
#7 - Feast & Fast for neither the Fittest nor the Fattest but a Frugal Futuristby Q aka Kyo Lee
#8 - Reflections From Laguna Beachby Liz Goldner
#9 - The Day the World StoppedBy Gail Gelburd
#10 - Art and Impermanence: An Interview with Jessica Dessner by Paul Maziar
#11 - Missing Museums by Tom L. Freudenheim
#12 - On Viewing Rooms: Displaying Pictures Void of Contexts, Absent Deliberation By Sue Spaid
#13 - Videodeath: Powderhorn Explodes The Image World by Terry Smith
#14- An Interview with Julia Schwartz By Paul Maziar
Public Relations
Felix Gonzalez-Torres in Milwaukee
By Luke Urbain
Luke Urbain takes stock of the legacy of Félix González-Torres and the malleability of context as artists, writers, and institutions confront a culture of censorship, returning to Torres's own words for a potential path forward.
Places We Make From
Beyond Appearances At The Stanford Art Gallery
By Alex Feliciano Mejía
Alex Feliciano Mejía squares the role of research universities in the AI era—and how artists in their surrounding communities are responding—in his review of EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES at Stanford Art Gallery.
They are each other’s happiness
Patric McCoy at MCA Chicago
By Derrick Austin
Derrick Austin explores the nature of resilience, desire, and pleasure through the legacy of Chicago's Black Queer community in five photographs by Patric McCoy.
Chew It In Reverse
Serena Chang’s Means of Production
By Annette An-Jen Liu
Annette An-Jen Liu showcases the artistic practice of Serena Chang, whose work connects lineages of industrial and agricultural production with personal and communal narratives.
Analog Ghosts on the West Coast
By Caitlin Chavez
Caitlin Chavez tackles the nature of nostalgia, shared memory, and the collective subconscious in Kristofferson San Pablo's For All The Ghosts at UC Riverside's Culver Center for the Arts.
Lines on Concrete: Najja Moon at Tunnel Projects
By Francess Archer Dunbar
Francess Archer Dunbar highlights how Tunnel Projects serves as a vital space for dialogue, institutional critique, and artistic expression, hosting immersive exhibitions that explore themes of collective action and memory.
Dreaming While Awake: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Sovereign
By May Howard
In her exploration of Cannupa Hanska Luger's Sovereign (2024), May Howard delves into how the artist blends Indigenous knowledge and science fiction to imagine a post-apocalyptic future.
Carrying Grief and Love at the Same Time with Artist vanessa german
By Emily Alesandrini
Emily Alesandrini explores vanessa german's multimedia sculptures, which blend grief, healing, and love through powerful assemblages of found objects and gemstones.
Every Day is a House Party: the Grief and Joy of Parenthood in Heather Owens’s Art
By Amy Kennedy
Amy Kennedy explores the emotional complexities of motherhood through the art of Heather Owens, whose work poignantly captures the grief, joy, and sacrifice of parenting.
But Still—The River
By Kit Xiong
Kit Xiong reflects on the ecological and human toll of the Love Canal chemical disaster through artist Dana Murray Tyrrell’s poignant paintings.
Floral Facades
By Kayla Anderson
Kayla Anderson on the work of Joiri Minaya and colonial legacies in the United States.
Marvelous Survival: 20 Years of SITAC
By Kimberlee Córdova
Kimberlee Córdova provides a critical retrospective look at the past 20 years of Mexico's SITAC conference.
On Rage and Silence
By Charlene K. Lau
"No radical change ever came of doing as you are told."
2020-2021: Art amidst Chaos
By Rehema C. Barber
Rehema C. Barber reviews the tumultuous last year and a half and asks: how can we move forward to create a new world together?
In Praise of Meandering
By Eva Recinos
Eva Recinos reflects on how the pandemic has shifted her approach to art writing.
Interviews with Art Writers on Writing Art Interviews
By Danni Shen
Danni Shen connects with fellow art critics on the importance of the interview format.
An Interview with Julia Schwartz
By Paul Maziar
Art Critics on Emergency #14
Paul Maziar shares reflections as part of the Art Critics on Emergency diary series.
Videodeath: Powderhorn Explodes The Image World
By Terry Smith
Art Critics on Emergency #13
Terry Smith shares reflections as part of the Art Critics on Emergency diary series.
On Viewing Rooms: Displaying Pictures Void of Contexts, Absent Deliberation
By Sue Spaid
Art Critics on Emergency #12
Sue Spaid shares reflections as part of the Art Critics on Emergency diary series.
Missing Museums
By Tom L. Freudenheim
Art Critics on Emergency #11
Tom L. Freudenheim shares reflections as part of the Art Critics on Emergency diary series.