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In 2018, the Archives of American Art acquired the papers of Beverly Buchanan. The diverse collection includes personal notebooks, journals, scrapbooks, artist statements, clippings, documentation of artworks, correspondence with colleagues and friends (including Lucy R. Lippard and Lowery Stokes Sims), photographic materials, illustrations, zines, and quickly executed jokes on paper. For the debut installment of the journal’s new section “Out of the Box,” executive editor Tanya Sheehan and guest editor Amelia Groom invited seven contributors to each select and meditate on one object from the Buchanan Papers—a rich and varied collection that poses timely questions about environmental and racial justice.

The article describes a photograph of a John Brown Tannery Site in night, captured by Dawoud Bey, who is known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits.

The article reviews the video installation exhibition "member: Pope.L, 1978–2001," at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on October 21, 2019-Jan 1, 2020.

The article offers information on the artist Paul Maheke. It mentions Maheke's 2016 exhibition "I Lost Track of the Swarm" showed him dancing with a light attached to his waist video showed him dancing with a light attached to his waist. it also mentions Maheke produced the two-channel video installation Mutual Survival, and Lorde's Manifesto.

The article focuses on the Baltimore Museum of Art's show "Guarding the Art" that is indebted to the lacma guards' pioneering initiative but operates rather differently. Topics include considered that in this permanent collection show guest-curated by seventeen gallery attendants, the security staff function not as the museum direct line into communities outside of it but as its bluecollar workers extensions of the museum engaged with and alienated from daily operations and social function.

The article offers review for the art exhibition "Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America," held at New Museum, New York, presenting works of late curator Okwui Enwezor.

The article on the work of artist Jamal Cyrus on 1967 police riot at Texas Southern University, and mentions that "We Did It For Love", an installation art comprised an overturned squad car, its radio playing police-scanner recordings from the 1965 Watts Rebellion.

The article previews the art exhibition "Nari Ward: We the People" displaying works by artist Nari Ward, including painting and installations, to be held at the New Museum in New York on February 13–May 26, 2019.

The article reviews the painting exhibition "Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire" displaying works by artist Thomas Cole, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2018.

The article previews the art exhibition "Felix Fénéon (1861–1944) Arts From Distant Lands" at theMusée du quai Branly—Jacques Chirac in Paris, France on May 28–September 29, 2019.