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Art Inquiries

Art Inquiries is a USA-based, peer-reviewed journal of scholarly articles on art, art education, and art history. It is published annually (typically in the fall) by SECAC and indexed in Art Full Text via EBSCO.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Current Volume: Volume 21 (2026) Art Inquiries, Vol. 21, Oct. 2026

Articles

Front Matter, Art Inquiries
Kris K. Belden-Adams

On Canvas: The Origins and Implications of a Common Phrase
Kerr Houston

Here Come the Brides: Sylvia Sleigh, Lawrence Alloway, and Hetty Remington
Andrew D. Hottle

On Stage: Startling Visibility, Operatic Drama, and George Tooker’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Alex Del Dago

Marie Taylor Barton and Southern Modernism
Cynthia Fowler

Robert Indiana, LOVE, Biblical Authority, and American Art in the 1960s
David McCarthy

Art Inquiries, Vol. 21, Oct. 15, 2026 - Full issue
Kris K. Belden-Adams

Exhibition Reviews

Harry Boone: From Entropy to Renewal, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
Mysoon Rizk

ENCODED, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
Tamara Smithers

Gustave Courbet: Realist and Rebel, Leopold Museum Vienna, Austria
Joyce Polistena

On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Elizabeth S. Hawley

Floating World: A.A. Murakami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Yumi Park

Book Reviews

Adrienne L. Childs, Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts
Brigid M. Boyle

Alison Place, ed., Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design
Anmol Shrivastava

Memory in Fragments: The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures by Megan E. O’Neil
Jeanette Nicewinter

Book Review: The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782) by Christina K. Lindeman
Amanda Strasik

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