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Issue 14: Half Full

Spring/Summer 2025

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Spring/Summer 2025
Coming May 3

HALF FULL will delight in duality, incompleteness, and lapses in memory. 

With contributions by: 
Sónia Almeida
Clara Maria Apostolatos
Luis Arnías
Storm Bookhard
Jacqueline Houton
Jameson Johnson 
Lauren Levato Coyne
Joetta Maue
Darla Migan
Michelle Millar Fisher
Michael Medeiros
Karla Méndez
Zach Ngin
Memory Object
Alanna Prince
Alisa Prince
Thea Quiray Tagle
Rachel TonThat
Dorian Wood

Featuring: 
Nora Burnett Abrams
Sarah Ganz Blythe
Renée Green
Yonatan Hopp
Kathy King
Skooby Laposky
Miguel Enrique Lastra
Jennie Jieun Lee
Lucy R. Lippard
Megumi Naitoh
Angela Tate

Cover: Renée Green, Colour Games, 1989. Acrylic on wood, Letraset dry-transfer lettering, and rubber-stamped ink on Masonite. Collection Yun Chun Lu.

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In this Issue

Title

Author

Category

Link

From the Editor

Jameson Johnson

Letter

Persistence in the Archives: Community Engagement and new platforms are fueling a renewed interest in local histories

Alanna and Alisa Prince

Features

The Bounty of the Berkshires’ Art Attractions

Lauren Levato Coyne

Features

Modes of Expedition: Renée Green’s textual cartographies

Storm Bookhard

Profile

Good Stuff: Lucy R. Lippard takes stock of a life well lived

Michelle Millar Fisher

Conversations

Turning Basil into Beats: How sound artist Skooby Laposky makes music with plants

Jacqueline Houton

Conversations

Antidiscipline / Antidisciplinario: Luis Arnías and Dorian Wood on intuition, liberation, and the art of refusing structure

Jameson Johnson

Conversations

New to Town: Sarah Ganz Blythe, Nora Burnett Abrams, and Angela Tate discuss their first year on the job at Boston-area museums

Jameson Johnson

Curator's Corner

Holding More: The vessel as a site of possibility

Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Community Voices

Resonant Variations

Sónia Almeida, in collaboration with Memory Object

Artist Project

“an archive and/or a repertoire” at Tufts University Art Galleries

Clara Apostolatos

Reviews

READ

“Dirty & Disorderly” at MASS MoCA

Rachel TonThat

Reviews

“Temporarily Ours” at Smith College Museum of Art

Michael Medeiros

Reviews

“As It Were, Suspended in Midair” at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery

Joetta Maue

Reviews

“Charles Atlas: About Time” at the ICA / Boston

Zach Ngin

Reviews

READ

“Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Thea Quiray Tagle

Reviews

“Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jacquinn Sinclair

Reviews

“Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract…” at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University

Karla Méndez

Reviews

“Hugh Hayden: Home Work” at the Rose Art Museum

Darla Migan

Reviews