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Issue 28 – November 2025

Photograph. A pale brown textile features an intricate, detailed design. The pattern of the textile is arranged into a grid formation, with squares resembling tiles, and each square ‘tile’ features its own unique geometric pattern. Rows of three intersecting lines run between the tiles, and in these are more elements of decorative pattern. — Asante/Dagomba (Ghana), Cloth (adinkra) (dithered detail), 1817, cotton and ink, 276 × 202 cm. Digital image courtesy of The Trustees of The British Museum (Af1818,1114.23). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

ARTICLE

Woven, Inscribed, Enfolded, Encased: Adinkra from Kumase to the British Museum

By Adrian Anagnost

ARTICLE

Turner’s Pencil: Graphite Landscapes and Extractive Industry

By Tobah Aukland-Peck

ARTICLE

The Resurrection of the Body: The Temple of Mithras in the City of London

By Altair Brandon-Salmon

ARTICLE

Joan Eardley and the Untidy, Tidal Nature of Painting

By Natalie Lawler

ARTICLE

Carifesta Geographies: Mapping Colonial Afterlives and the Caribbean Festival of Arts’ “Phenomenal Dreaming”, 1966–1976

By Adrienne Rooney

ONE OBJECT

Modern Painters, Vol. 1, No. 1

Convened by Chloë Julius