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The mission ofArt Journal, founded in 1941, is to develop rigorous andshared methods by which modern and contemporary art can be understood; toengage critically with twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and art history innational and global frameworks; to encourage broad and rigorous contributionsto our disciplines and to institute, in our peer review and editorial structures,an inclusive, critical, and collaborative approach to the development of newand emerging forms of thought and communities of practice; to address andredress exclusionary histories of art and art history as fields of practice andscholarship; to be pedagogically useful by making links between theoreticalissues and their use in teaching at the college and university levels; to explorerelationships among diverse forms of art practice and production as well aswithin the fields of art making, art history, visual studies, theory, and criticism;to give voice and publication opportunity to artists, art historians, and otherwriters in the arts; to be responsive to issues of the moment in and beyond thearts; and to promote dialogue and debate.

Art Journal andArt Journal Open commit to representation across race, gender,sexuality, disability, and other meaningful forms of experience in our content,our membership as a board, and our appointment of editors as well as to theinclusion of a wide range of approaches, methods, and subfields of modernand contemporary art history and art practice. We intend to use institutionalstructures to transform the disciplines of art and art history rather than tomaintain the status quo.

The quarterly journal, which welcomes submissions from authors andartists worldwide and at every career stage, is published in spring, summer,autumn, and winter by CAA.

Selected content from each print issue ofArt Journal is published onArt Journal Open.

ART JOURNAL AWARD

The Art Journal Award is presented to the author of the most distinguished contribution—article, interview, conversation, portfolio, review, or any other text or visual project—published in Art Journal during the previous year.Learn more here.