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Archives of American Art Journal: Spring 2025, Volume 64, Number 1
The Spring 2025 issue of the Archives of American Art Journal examines creative collaborations between librarian Romana Javitz and modernist Joseph Cornell; explores the intermediality of Walter De Maria’s Land art; and chronicles the changing discourse of ecological art embodied in an unrealized public sculpture by Nancy Holt. Curator and art historian Tiffany E. Barber reimagines another unrealized project documented by the Archives, revealing how Black women artists’ work has been represented in the US since the 1970s. Finally, art historian Karen Gonzalez Rice posits expressions of embarrassment and discomfort in art-historical archives as critical strategies that enrich our understandings of artists and their work.
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From 2012-2019, the Archives administered a graduate research essay prize funded by the Dedalus Foundation. The prize recognized original research by a graduate student that engaged deeply with the collections of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.
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