Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo writes on Adedayo Agarau: “Unlike his contemporaries, the blend of real and imagined events/entities in The Years of Blood pushes the poetics beyond real-life catastrophes, hinting at a certain level of traditional sensibility.” asapjournal.com/review/reima...

NEW CLUSTER ALERT Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase Ed. Michael Dango &&Feat. Moya Li Istifaa Ahmed Waleska Solorzano Thea Ballard Sarah Buckner Tara Holman Jered Mabaquiao Zora Duncan Paloma Checa-Gismero asapjournal.com/cluster/worl...

In our newest, Margaryta Golovchenko reviews artist Jana Sterbak’s Dimensions of Intimacy: “The flank steak from which [Vanitas] was stitched shone in the gallery light and reflected such a soft sheen that it recalled a satin nightgown eagerly awaiting to be put on…” asapjournal.com/review/jana-...

Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

“Taken together,” this cluster “suggest[s] that artistic representation can reveal what is often hidden. In the case of abortion—often illegal, shameful, known more through whisper networks than official archives—so much is concealed.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“What would our resistance look like if we thought more about aesthetics? What new kinds of resistance might emerge if aesthetics were central to our conceptualization of reproductive resistance?” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"Beyoncé’s version of motherhood—one that draws from cultural history while responding to the present and looking toward the future—represents a version that is deeply needed during this time of great reproductive restriction..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/house-m... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"Ming Fay’s posthumous presence is not memorial but mutation, a continuation of life in materials that refuse stillness." Read @reneeyujin.bsky.social on Ming Fay, The Campus, papier-mâché skin, persistence and ruin, legacy and residue, sculpture, fruit, and more! asapjournal.com/review/the-w...

“There is, unfortunately, an unironic similarity to Happy the Elephant’s quest for freedom and the continued fight for bodily and reproductive autonomy of human beings..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/her-bel... @asapjournal.bsky.social

Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

“Those without access to power—to master discourse, whether because of race, gender, sexuality, economic status, nationality, religion, or other forms of identity that those with power seek to exclude—use code." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“It is hard to describe abortion as a form of sexual freedom. Writing of art and abortion in 2009, when abortion was still legal across the country, Jennifer Doyle expressed this difficulty with eloquence...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"The enduring presence of the image of the Virgin Mary in art about abortion illuminates a crisis in representation." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“Comstock’s network made regular headlines as they hounded those who aided and abetted bodily autonomy seekers. These laws limited discussions pertaining to bodily autonomy, which became tenuous at best and litigious at worst..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/aiding-... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in childbirth...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"...alongside Milton’s descriptors, led me to ask questions about the biological function of the human uterus. And in that process, I discovered striking similarities between Milton’s warring chaos and a uterus during pregnancy." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“By staging the abortion as a crime scene scattered with the abortionist’s dubious tools & techniques, [the work] also functions as a grotesquely ruinous parody of the artist’s studio—& thus positions Kienholz as the abortionist.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

Paula Rego is often called a remarkable storyteller as her work is deeply ingrained with narrative—sometimes personal, entangled with family & childhood memories, individual politics, experiences, feelings & emotions” Read: asapjournal.com/node/embodim... @asapjournal.bsky.social @jmss3.bsky.social

“Sontag’s description of the fascist seduction as a process of “purification” that transformed “sexual energy into ‘spiritual force’ for the benefit of the community” aligns with the self-described pro-life movement in America.” Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“In light of these...attacks on abortion access concomitant w greater restrictions on women’s rights to make choices about their bodies, this cluster takes up the politics surrounding abortion as it threads through art & activism." asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“But Munch’s selection of impression for the Armory show suggests that the work could also be topical, implicated and even intervening—or not—in debates over abortion, contraception, & women’s rights in Europe and the U.S." Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

New from @asapjournal.bsky.social and Maryanne Saunders asapjournal.com/node/from-th...

Three years in the making, this cluster is out in the world!

//a very special february cluster// FROM THE GAPS: ART, LITERATURE, & ABORTION out now!!! Eds. Leila Easa & Jennifer Stager &&Feat. A Morehead E Legge J Gosse M Oliveira A Graham L Perry J M Nader M Saunders C Schopp B Wright S Cannon C Thomsen M Fissell asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

Out now! Read Tianren Luo's essay on Cai Guo-Qiang's *The Rising Dragon* (2025) and the project's "entanglements in the longue durée of extractivism under the settler-colonial regime in Tibet." asapjournal.com/feature/on-e...

Your 20 most-read Hopkins Press journal articles in January ask big questions: What are human rights? What is cancer? Why feminist bioethics? These questions, and much more, await you at the Newsroom Blog! Peruse the pieces you read most last month now: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...

“ … women-of-color liberation movements have always been, and always will be, disability justice movements.” Our newest review of Jina B. Kim's book, Care at the End of the World, by Augusta Funk is now out! asapjournal.com/review/liber...

Read Julia L Mueller's review of C Hovanec's *Notes on Vermin*: “The relational character that defines vermin as a category...is deeply tied to the visceral responses of 20/21st-century humans to verminous animals, to these literary vermin gnawing away...” asapjournal.com/review/revie...

"The Politics of Collecting promises no easy curative or reparative reading. Instead, it argues that the only just way forward might be wholesale abolition of the art museum and the art world as we know it." an exhilarating review of my book by Laura Vrana! @dukepress.bsky.social

Our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Kristen Lauritzen is out now: “Goodman [...] questions the divide between man and beast; Carrington’s art likewise contradicts the anthropocentric hierarchy, offering an alternative relationship between humankind and nature.” asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

"What Inner Feast and Group Lick represent is that art does not live in isolation from its site—and in these two cases, its communities." Written by shuang cai, our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece covers consumption, digestion, community—check it out! asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Arts & Culture: buff.ly/oGGfb7S

HBO’s "The Last of Us" lays bare humanity’s relationship with violence, but it succumbs to the limits of its genre. This piece argues that the show devolves into a binary Western where survival and revenge overwrite deeper questions. By Michael Autrey in @asapjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/kzOxVTz

this is interesting and opens up questions about what adaptation does with this settler fantasy of western expansion written by someone who grew up as a settler in the west bank

“The Last of Us is a show of force, literally and figuratively.” Read our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Michael Autrey on The Last of Us and adaptations, force and power, questions of genre, and who gets to be hailed—and who excluded—within the word 'us'. asapjournal.com/review/the-l...

"What Inner Feast and Group Lick represent is that art does not live in isolation from its site—and in these two cases, its communities." Written by shuang cai, our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece covers consumption, digestion, community—check it out! asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

Our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Kristen Lauritzen is out now: “Goodman [...] questions the divide between man and beast; Carrington’s art likewise contradicts the anthropocentric hierarchy, offering an alternative relationship between humankind and nature.” asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.” asapjournal.com/review/disma...

What's that? ASAP/Review now has an Instagram??? It's true! Tell all your friends and follow us over there for exciting new updates from your favorite journal: www.instagram.com/asap_journal/

In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.” asapjournal.com/review/disma...

Excited that this review I wrote of Eunsong Kim's extraordinary book The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property is now live on ASAP/Reviews! asapjournal.com/review/disma...

"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..." — Yunning Zhang asapjournal.com/review/ornat...

"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..." — Yunning Zhang asapjournal.com/review/ornat...

Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.” asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...

M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..." asapjournal.com/node/through...

On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].” asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...

George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..." asapjournal.com/node/past-an...

“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres. asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...

Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions." asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...

@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..." asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...