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James Nisbet

JAMES NISBET is an art historian and critic who lives in Long Beach, California.

Guest Critic

Ours is a City of Writers

By Suzanne Hudson, Simon Leung, and James Nisbet

New approaches to writing are everywhere in evidence across the contemporary art world. In Los Angeles, home of East of Borneo, X–TRA, Les Figues Press, MATERIAL, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, to name a few venues where art meets writing, critical and discursive engagement with art and art writing is especially pronounced.

Portrait of Suzanne Hudson. Pencil on paper by Phong Bui.
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