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Art & the Public Sphere 10.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Art & the Public Sphere 10.1 is out now!

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Aims and Scope

Art & the Public Sphere provides a new platform for academics, artists, curators, art historians and theorists whose working practices are broadly concerned with contemporary art’s relation to the public sphere. APS aims to establish a critical relationship to traditional and conventional debates about public art and art in the public sector and the public realm.

Issue 10.1

Opening Essay

Toppling statues, affective publics and the lessons of the Black Lives Matter movement

DAVE BEECH AND MEL JORDAN

Articles

Through the House of Slaves: A memorial to the origins of the Black diaspora

TANESHIA W. ALBERT AND LINDSAY TAN

R WE LOUD ENOUGH?: Re-inscribing monuments in the public sphere by the Black Lives Matter movement

JIM BROGDEN AND DOUGLAS HARPER

Empty plinths: The significance of absence

EMMA MAHONY

The strange monumentality of some artworks or something