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Issue No: 95

Topic: SEEING RED

Guest Editor: Curator of the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Sarah Higgins.

The color red carries a vast range of associations. It is the color connected to heat, passion, anger, love… Red is the color of blood and the color of the ochre pigments used in the earliest known works of art.

Red is correlated to sin and violence (blood, poison, etc.) and to loss and deficit (the loss of blood or the loss of financial assets, e.g. “being in the red”). Red from this perspective indicates a lack or a failing, but red’s other associations such as love and passion, speak to new possibilities and generation. A political color as well, it was synonymous with Communism in the 20th century, only to make an ideological shift during the Presidential election of 2000, coming to represent majority Republican states via the shorthand “red state.”

Red’s current relationship to the visualization of partisan politics, and its resonance in sustained states of anger related to those politics, offers a rich landscape through which to explore our current moment. Issue NO. 95 invites contributions from artists, writers, and other thinkers documenting and investigating a range of social, psychological, aesthetic, and political topics, with the color red as the point of departure. Deadline, Sunday, June 24th.

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