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Open Access (Diamond) journal for Art History, founded in 2020, editorial office based at University of Bern, in collaboration with arthistoricum.net / heiup.uni-heidelberg.de
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Published today! Our Summer issue #2-25 - with an orbituary by Ursula Frohne for our co-founder Michael F. Zimmermann, an article "On Leisure and Limbo. Adriatic Nodes of Tourism and Migration" by Hanni Geiger, an exhibition review & 7 book reviews: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

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Book Review of 📘 'Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran', Pamela Karimi @21inquiries.bsky.social

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#IranianArt #WomenArtists #womenlifefreedom #BookReview
July 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Published today! Our Summer issue #2-25 - with an orbituary by Ursula Frohne for our co-founder Michael F. Zimmermann, an article "On Leisure and Limbo. Adriatic Nodes of Tourism and Migration" by Hanni Geiger, an exhibition review & 7 book reviews: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

#ArtHistory #OpenAccess
July 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@21inquiries.bsky.social's summer issue #2-25 is coming soon! With an obituary for our co-founder Michael F. Zimmermann, an article by Hanni Geiger on "Adriatic Nodes of Tourism and Migration", an exhibition review, and many book reviews. More here: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
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June 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Out now! Spring issue #1-25 of @21inquiries.bsky.social, with articles on board games in 17th-century France, the 19th-century painter Johann Moritz Rugendas’ "Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil", and on climate activism in museums: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

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#DiamondOpenAccess
April 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Spring issue #1-25 of @21inquiries.bsky.social in preparation and coming soon, with articles by Sasha Rossman, Miguel Gaete Caceres, and Marlene Militz, an exhibition review and five book reviews. Sneak preview on our website: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
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21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
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April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just published - in time for the holidays and highly recommended as an exciting read: @21inquiries.bsky.social's issue #4-2024💫
A special issue on "Stella Kramrisch and the Transculturation of Art History", ed. by Matthew Vollgraff & Jo Ziebritzki: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
December 24, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Coming soon! Exciting special issue on "Stella Kramrisch and the Transculturation of Art History" in preparation, ed. by Matthew Vollgraff & Jo Ziebritzki - get a first impression here: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
With four articles, an "Archival Dossier", seven book reviews and an exhibition review!
December 18, 2024 at 9:27 PM
"21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual" is now on LinkedIn! linkedin.com/company/21-i...
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October 25, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Published today! Fall issue #3/24 of @21inquiries.bsky.social, with articles by Caroline van Eck, Aaron M. Hyman, Marina Gerber, Leena Crasemann & Anne Röhl, lots of images - and four book reviews: doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2024.3
#arthistory #openaccess #globalarthistory
October 7, 2024 at 9:38 AM
The "Placing the first pillar" of the "new Crystal Palace, Sydenham", London (1852). Find more on this special building - a legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851 - in Andreas Fahrmeir's contribution in @21inquiries.bsky.social's special issue on world exhibitions: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
September 9, 2024 at 2:35 PM
We are preparing @21inquiries.bsky.social's autumn issue #3-24! 🍂 Check out our website for a sneak preview: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
#ArtHistory #OpenAccess
September 9, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Notre nouveau numéro spécial rassemble des articles sur le thème des "expositions universelles" sous des angles très différents. Ils sont présentés individuellement dans les deux éditoriaux (allemand/français) : doi.org/10.11588/xxi... et doi.org/10.11588/xxi....
August 6, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Our new special issue brings together articles on "World Exhibitions" from very different perspectives. They are presented individually in the two editorials (German/French) - always a good starting point for a first overview: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... and doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
August 6, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Out now! @21inquiries.bsky.social's special issue #2–2024 "Welten ausstellen, Welten ordnen (19.–21. Jahrhundert)/Mondes exposés, mondes ordonnés (XIXe–XXIe siècles)", ed. by A. Haß & C. Trautmann-Waller: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #openaccess #arthistory #expositionuniverselle
July 12, 2024 at 11:21 AM
@21inquiries.bsky.social in Lyon at the "Salon du Livre" of the 36ème Congrès du CIHA! Huge thanks to our fantastic colleagues from @arthistoricum.bsky.social for displaying our bookmarks #CIHA2024 #CIHA #Lyon #arthistory #openaccess
June 25, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Coming soon! New special issue on: "Welten ausstellen, Welten ordnen (19.–21. Jahrhundert)/Mondes exposés, mondes ordonnés (XIXe–XXIe siècles)", ed. by Annika Haß & Céline Trautmann-Waller: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview #Weltausstellungen #Expositionsuniverselles #OpenAccess
June 13, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Just published: @21inquiries.bsky.social's special issue #1–2024 "Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art. Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks", ed. by Birgit Hopfener & Karin Zitzewitz doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
#openaccess #arthistory #globalarthistory #pluriverse
April 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM
New special issue for @21inquiries.bsky.social in preparation: "Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art. Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks", ed. by Birgit Hopfener & Karin Zitzewitz. For a preview click here: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview #arthistory #OpenAccess
March 1, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Have you already read the five book reviews in
@21inquiries.bsky.social's latest issue? You can read them online or download them free of charge here: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
#openaccess #arthistory #arthistoryreviews #globalarthistory
February 26, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Paul Werling analyses how portraits generated by Nvidia’s StyleGAN2 relate to the photographic in his article "Does this Person Exist? KI-Generierte Porträts und ihre prekäre Existenz im Digitalen Raum" for @21inquiries.bsky.social: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #GeneratedPortraits #ArtificialIntelligence
February 16, 2024 at 4:51 PM
In his article "Memetic Superposition. Evaluating the Parallels between Memes and Renaissance Emblems" Ray Drainville argues that our understanding of memes can be enhanced by a comparison with Renaissance emblems as their historical precursor: doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2023.4.100739 #arthistory
February 8, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Jules Pelta Feldman's article on "Reperformance, Reenactment, Simulation. Notes on the Conservation of Performance Art" (doi.org/10.11588/xxi...) focuses on works by Marina Abramović, their representations in popular media and their conservation through simulation in popular media. #OpenAccess
February 6, 2024 at 7:08 PM
In her essay "The Female Nude in Anti-Zia Feminist Painting" Kristin Plys explores the intersection of art and left politics after the 1977 coup that launched General Zia-ul-Haq’s military dictatorship in Pakistan: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #Feminism #arthistory #OpenAccess
February 2, 2024 at 10:47 AM
In her article for @21inquiries.bsky.social's latest issue - "Ecologies of Blue Paper. Dürer and Beyond" - Iris Brahms examines blue paper as an "ecological solution" in the drawing practice of German artists in the early sixteenth century: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #arthistory #openaccess #Dürer
January 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
A happy, peaceful and fulfilling new year to all our readers!

@21inquiries.bsky.social is entering its fifth year: We look forward to presenting you with four more exciting issues in 2024.
If you would like to publish with us yourself, please send your submissions to 21-inquiries@unibe.ch.
January 8, 2024 at 2:30 PM