Guest Authors

Musicologist Jayme Kurland shares her research on industrial designer John Vassos' contributions to instrument design. 

Guest author Tara Allen-Flanagan finds the story of a sculpture in some unexpected places.

Guest author Anne Evenhaugen shares the backstory of a letter from Ray Johnson to critic Arthur C. Danto and why he kept it. 

Art historian Jeffrey Richmond-Moll shares a discovery made from a photograph printed in reverse. 

Using unpublished materials from the Lucy Lippard Papers, art historian Florencia San Martín writes about the correlation between a mural created in Chile and an art action in New York organized in 1973 in solidarity with victims of the coup.

Art historian Florencia San Martín traces connections between two mural brigades working in Pan-American solidarity with the ideology of politician Salvador Allende, both before and after the 1973 Chilean coup.

Gwendolyn Owens, director of curatorial affairs for McGill University's Visual Arts Collection, reflects on her many journeys through the Macbeth Gallery Records.

In this guest post, Jody Clowes shares the story of a photograph infused with Wisconsin history. 

Guest author Kevin Kim explores how the work Japanese American artist Roger Shimomura was influenced by his grandmother's diary and their shared experience of incarceration during WWII. 

Guest blogger Rachel White examines how Lonnie Holley's Alabama roots have influenced his art.