A Journal of Contemporary Aesthetics and Ideas

Surface
vs
Ground

Directional Forces explores the strife between World and Earth

The Aesthetics of Isolation

A meditation on the experience of being isolated during the Covid-19 pandemic

Directional Forces and Covid-19

Forces Are Directing Us to Stay Home and Give Thanks to Those Who are Healing and Protecting Us

 

Directional Works: Barry X Ball’s “Medardo Rosso Project”

A Contemporary Artist Re-structuring Modernism As Homage in Stone

Kiefer as Phenomenon

An exploration of the work of Anselm Kiefer and its relationship to history

Baroque Obama

An analysis of Kehinde Wiley’s official Presidential Portrait of Barack Obama

Directional Works: Nicole Cherubini’s “Althean”

A glimpse at a contemporary ceramic sculpture embracing atemporality

 

Mythos and Beings: Kiki Smith at the Deste Foundation

A review of the site-specific installation in Hydra, Greece

On the Precipice of Anti-Art

Daria Grantia’s Saules Suns at the 2019 Venice Bienale

Profile

Our Philosophy and Origin Story

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Essays

Long-Form Writings on Contemporary Art, Politics, and Philosophy

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Reviews

Reviews of Recent Exhibitions, Works and Phenomena

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Lecture Series

Talks by Artists, Curators and Thinkers 

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Annual

Directional Forces Is Published Annually in a Special Edition Book 

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Salon

Directional Forces Hosts Regular Salons Where the Social Is Intellectual

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