The first issue in a series of six guest editors, designed to open everything up for reinterpretation. — Saskia Benjamin, excerpt, Letter from the Executive Director TABLE OF CONTENTS: tête-à-tête a conversation with Mickalene Thomas Carmen McCleod and Mickalene Thomas discuss collaboration, identity, and performance. Attack of the Boogeywomen: Visualizing Black Women’s Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism Jared Richardson explores the use of the grotesque as an Afrofuturist tool in contemporary painting. She Put a Spell on Us: The Persisting and Mercurial Legacy of Nina Simone Carmen Winant looks at the legacy of Nina Simone and her timeless and transgressive ability to give form, word, and music to the political, the angry, and the emotionally complex. Artist Project Jacolby Satterwhite: Reifying Desire 5 Jacolby Satterwhite’s interdisciplinary practice moves between 2-D and time-based formats activating an alternate reality is both tied to and re-creates an existing history. The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment Cauleen Smith and the Association of Creative Maladjustment of Cinema propose a new life for time-based media and the moving image. Terra Nova/ Terra Nullius Paul Miller builds a multi-faceted project examining our modern relationship to nature through a sonic exploration of Antarctica and global climate change. Black Contemporary Art A re-creation of the Tumblr blog that archives and prioritizes works by emerging artists in the diaspora, and more uncommonly viewed works by many well-known artists. Arrested Transmission: from Periphery to Center With a look at the work of two Caribbean artists, Leon Wainwright discusses the transnational flow of influence and understanding in the digital age. Future Anterior: An index to contemporary art’s imminent history Material Girls, Dinah McClintock Rashid Johnson, Meaghan Manuel Jimmy Robert, Michelle Garbner Center for Land Use Interpretation, Mary Walling Blackburn Alvin Baltrop, Kate Green Karina Bisch, Yelena Popova, and Mary Simpson, Eva Kenny Justin B. Hansh, Kathryn Scanlan Sue Tompkins, Anne Reeve Zachary Fabri, Wayne Hodge Querelle - photographed by Roger Fritz, David Everitt Howe Gregory Green, Alex Jovanovivh VideoSur II, Becky Huff Hunter Mark Bradford + Carlos Avendano, Melissa Potter
