Explore the Spring 2026 Issue Ritual Substitution: The Votive Body as Proxy | Kristine Pashin, Stanford University That Which Cannot be Seen nor Heard: Palestinian Displacement, Aesthetic Opacity, and Political Refusal in Mona Hatoum’s Measures of Distance (1988) | Koby Chen, Yale University Pedagogical Poets and Artist-Activists: Arseny Zhilyaev and Contemporary Protest Art in Russia | Camille Kelly, Georgetown University A Polish(ed) Sort of Orientalism: Anna Bilińska’s Portrait-Study of a Black Woman from 1884 | Paulina Gasiorowska, Brown University