Derek Conrad Murray, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been appointed the new editor of Art Journal, one of the flagship publications of the College Art Association.
The mission of Art Journal, founded in 1941, is to
- develop rigorous and shared methods by which modern and contemporary art can be understood;
- to engage critically with twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and art history in national and global frameworks;
- to encourage broad and rigorous contributions to our disciplines and to institute, in our peer review and editorial structures, an inclusive, critical, and collaborative approach to the development of new and emerging forms of thought and communities of practice;
- to address and redress exclusionary histories of art and art history as fields of practice and scholarship;
- to be pedagogically useful by making links between theoretical issues and their use in teaching at the college and university levels;
- to explore relationships among diverse forms of art practice and production as well as within the fields of art making, art history, visual studies, theory, and criticism;
- to give voice and publication opportunity to artists, art historians, and other writers in the arts;
- to be responsive to issues of the moment in and beyond the arts; and to promote dialogue and debate.
Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He works in contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory with particular attention to technocultural engagements with identity and representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals such as American Art, Art in America, Parachute, Art Journal, Third Text, Consumption Markets & Culture, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, where he currently serves as Associate Editor. Murray is currently on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Third Text and Visual Studies. He is the author of Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control (2020), and Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (2016).
Read more about Derek Murray here:
https://havc.ucsc.edu/faculty/derek-murray
