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Issue 19 – February 2021

Mixed media. A red silhouette of a costume seems drawn in thread against a black background. The hood has three tall lobes. Tiny red crosses and a few sculptures hang all over the costume. A silvery grey object with a blade-like form above a circle is to the left. — Victor Ehikhamenor, The Day Oba Esigie was Baptised (dithered detail), 2019, rosary beads, bronze statuettes, and diamante fabric on lace, 89 × 68 in. Digital image courtesy of Victor Ehikhamenor (all rights reserved).

ARTICLE

Millais’s Metapicture: The North-West Passage as Distillate of Arctic Voyaging from the Anglosphere

By Mark A. Cheetham

ARTICLE

John McHale, Marshall McLuhan, and the Collage “Ikon”

By Rachel Stratton

ARTICLE

Spratt’s Flaps: Midwifery, Creativity, and Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

By Rebecca Whiteley

CONVERSATION PIECE

Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum

Convened by Dan Hicks

ARTIST COLLABORATION

Royal Religion Series

By Victor Ehikhamenor