Issue 12: Some Assembly Required
Spring/Summer 2024
$21.00
The theme of this issue, "Some Assembly Required," is both an invitation and a call. It’s a celebration of layered processes and histories and an exploration of what happens when we create space for collective action. With stories that cover past collective actions, current organizing, and more, Issue 12 is a reminder that the only way to find our path forward is to build it.
Issue 12 will be released at our annual launch event on May 18. It will be available for pickup by selecting the "Party Entry" ticket. Otherwise, copies will be shipped beginning May 22.
Cover: Hong Hong, 内陆/Inland (detail), 2023
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In this Issue
Title
Author
Category
Link
From the Editor
Jameson Johnson
Letter
The Boston Collective: Assembled at the Right Place and Time
Martina Tanga
Feature
A Perch with Purpose: Jean Shin’s salvaged trees offer resting sites for migrating birds and human visitors at Appleton Farms
Karolina Hać
Feature
Developing a Movement: How the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement used printed matter to protest apartheid
Jovonna Jones
Feature
Literature and Liberation A bookstore and gathering place comes to Fields Corner
Niara Simone Hightower
Feature
When Artists Organize: The Fight Against Displacement in Greater Boston
Shira Laucharoen
Feature
Piece by Piece: A close look at three mixed-media works
Jacqueline Houton
Editor's Picks
Putting the Public in Public Art: How participatory projects are bringing Bostonians together
Jacquinn Sinclair
Feature
The Conditional No
Tania Brugera
Feature
Bodies as Geographies, Paper, Mountains: In Conversation with Hong Hong
Danni Shen
Conversations
Blooming Memories: In Conversation with Jo Nanajian
Helina Almonte, Dylan Bunyak, and Erwin Kamuene
Conversations
Party as Practice: How nightlife is cultivating creative community in Boston
Gina Lindner
Editor's Picks
Dear Reader, Don’t Read
Ulises
Artist Project
Incense Ingots
Limited Time Engagement
Artist Project
Noé Martínez: "The Body Remembers" at the Rose Art Museum
Zach Ngin
Reviews
Lorraine O'Grady: "Both/And" at the Davis Museum
Alisa Prince
Reviews
“Like Magic” at MassMoCA
Jessica Shearer
Reviews
“Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
Toby Wu
Reviews
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelopes Addressed and Mailed by Type Designers and Notable Graphic Designers” at Katherine Small Gallery
Poppy Livingstone
Reviews
“Wu Tsang: Of Whales” at the ICA/ Boston
Thea Quiray Tagle
Reviews
Articles from this Issue
Issue 12 • Nov 12, 2024
Literature and Liberation: A Bookstore and Gathering Place Comes to Fields Corner
Feature by Niara Simone Hightower
Issue 12 • Jul 26, 2024
Wu Tsang's "Of Whales” Conjures an Otherworldly Oceanscape at a Distance from the Real Thing
Review by Thea Quiray Tagle
Issue 12 • Jul 17, 2024
A Perch with Purpose: Jean Shin's Salvaged Trees Greet Birds and Visitors at Appleton Farms
Feature by Karolina Hac
Issue 12 • Jun 12, 2024
