The last issue of CT  for the year–and the last issue before going to a twice-monthly format–ROCKED!

Michael Dickins explores the blunting of awareness and empathy by our mass media in Michael Dickins: PreOccupied.

Michael Dickins, “New York 2011”, 48”x48”, pastel, graphite, charcoal, oil pastel

J. Adam McGalliard works the layers of reality in  “Projections“:

“The projected image works as a double-edged sword. It can starkly reveal something that is hidden, like the writhing tattoos of the Illustrated Man, or it can mask an individual as a concealing veil or garment that creates a protected outer hull.”

J. Adam McGalliard, “Pink Magnolias,” Oil on Linen

A fantastic end-of-the-year meditation and killer playlist in Rebekah Goode-Peoples’s “Pay Attention (and then do something).”

In the “Postcolonial Thoughts” column Christopher Hutchinson reviews leading art theorist/curator Nicholas Bourriaud’s The Radicant.

Stellar reflection by Daniel Boscaljon upon the nature of relationship  in “all that I had in you was only myself”  (image by me).

Melissa D. Johnston