August 31, 2026 By: Pavel Andrade

In a new retrospective at the Tate Modern, Ana Mendieta's work asks us to imagine ecology not as something outside of ourselves, but as a force tied to belonging, history and power.

Sérgio Martins shows that Antonio Dias’s early figurative style mediated the crisis of modernism by combining graphic representation with three-dimensional objecthood. Experimenting with materials lik...

Thomas Waller reviews a new philosophy book that seeks to adapt Adorno and Horkheimer for the modern era.

Thomas Waller on Lygia Clark at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

This seminar reinterprets the trajectory of the short-lived Brazilian art movement known as “Neo-Concretism” Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Thomas Waller.

Presents the most wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the influence of modernist art and literature on Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian…

The field of architectural history has remained largely uninterested in the construction site as an object of analysis. The recently translated writings of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro enjoin us t...

Errant Marxist-Lacanian ideology Thomas Waller

A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago

Despite its epochal importance in the trajectory of modern art, the organic line has hitherto been excluded from official histories, which have tended to rely on categories like the grid, the monochro...

O livro é bom não só por realçar os feitos de um pensador brasileiro, mas pelo que traz sobre a literatura mundial

Abstract. This article critically compares two recent approaches to the problem of aesthetic autonomy: Dave Beech’s Art and Value and Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy. By recentering the differences betw...

This four-part lecture series asks what we can learn from Marx about the climate crisis: its origins, its impacts, and what possible solutions we might seek in the face of increasingly inadequate go...

Abstract In his early reading of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady, originally written in English and then translated into Portuguese for publication in A Sereia e o desconfiado (1965), the...

'Toll' and 'Or Eternity'