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Vanley Burke, Young Men on a See-Saw in Handsworth Park, 1984

Hiram Maristany, ¡Nosotros somos El Museo del Barrio!: Primer aniversario, 1972

Käthe Kollwitz, Volunteers, from the series War, 1921–22, published 1923

Käthe Kollwitz, Parents, from the series War, 1921–22, published 1923

Ivan Shagin, Mass Paratrooper Landing in Kyiv, part of the Large Kyiv Maneuvers training exercises, USSR, September 12–17, 1935

Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1933

Kazimir Malevich, Woman Worker in Red, 1933

Kazimir Malevich, Red House, 1932

Kazimir Malevich, Two Figures in a Landscape, 1932

Kazimir Malevich, Peasant Woman, 1930

Kazimir Malevich, Harvesting, 1929

Bruce Davidson, Subway, New York City, 1980

Bruce Davidson, Subway, New York City, 1980

Hiram Maristany, Casa Evita, 1965

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Ming Smith, Amina and Amiri Baraka (Lovers), 1980

Poster for Jane Arden’s play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, 1969, at the Arts Laboratory, London.

A PDF of Julian’s essay “What is a Laboratory?” — produced on the occasion of the Wexner Center for the Arts’ 2022 exhibition “To Begin, Again: A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968–89,” curated by Daniel Marcus — can be downloaded here.

It offers a compact genealogy of the “arts laboratory” in the 20th century in the USA and UK.

Carmen Herrera, portrait by Victor Laredo, 1948 — RIP

Carmen Herrera, Untitled (Orange and Black), 1956

Carmen Herrera, Equilibrio, 2017

Overton Loyd, back cover of Parliament’s Motor Booty Affair, 1978

Steven Hazard, Media = Message: Tower of Babel, Top Floor, 1984

Futura 2000 creating Untitled(1984) for the exhibition Writing on the Wall: Works in Progress by New York Graffiti Artists at Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, Ohio State University, February 1–16, 1984.

Julian speaks tomorrow, Feb. 4., 2022, at 5:30 pm (EST) on a Wexner Center for the Arts panel discussing artistic experimentation and grassroots activism at OSU, for the exhibition To Begin, Again:A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968–89, curated by Daniel Marcus.

Julian’s essay onNancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, 1973–76, is up now, part of Holt/Smithson Foundation’s Tuesday Texts series.

Tom Phillips, After Raphael (?), 1973 - a detail was used as the cover of Brian Eno’s 1975 album Another Green World.

Joan Mitchell, Sans Neige, 1969

Ming Smith, Cadillac Man, New York, 1991

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975–78

Edgar Arceneaux, Skinning the Mirror 12, 2021, from the artist’s new solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles opening on 1/29. More info, and Julian’s short essay on the series, here.

Adam Rzepecki, Brick, 1981

Toyen, La Guerre, 1945

Martin Luther King, Jr. at Cobo Hall, Detroit, June 23, 1963 (Photo: Detroit News)

Martin Luther King, Jr. at Cobo Hall, Detroit, June 23, 1963 (Photo: AP)

Sabine Weiss, Ivy Nicholson in Chanel’s Anthracite Jersey Knit,1956

Arnold Schoenberg, Hands, 1910

Arnold Schoenberg, The Burial of Gustav Mahler, 1911

Erika Mann and her brother (and collaborator) Klaus Mann in 1927

Erika Mann in 1948. Photo: Florence Homolka

Erika Mann’s press credentials for the Nuremberg trials, 1946