Happy New Year, 2023!

Happy New Year! Thanks to all those involved in the Journal of Visual Art Practice, for all your kind support with editing and reviewing, and of course for submitting wonderful materials for publication. As we know, academic journals are largely a labour of love and can only exist based on a true sense of community. The editorial team are extremely grateful for your continued support, and we are excited for the new year. Issue 1 in 2023 will be available end of February and includes some really wonderful contributions. This will be followed by a double issue, 'Situations of Writing' (Issues 2-3), which explores the complexities of form and content and textual situations of art practice.

For now, however, we are pleased to announce the latest issue of Journal of Visual Art Practice (Vol.21, Issue 4), which came out just before the Christmas break and is available online and in print (via library subscriptions).

Vol 21, Issue 4: Table of Contents

Theory and convictions of practice: Agamben on Kant and contemporary art Ian Heywood

Note on Agamben on art criticism and the art object as medium John Lechte

Scenes from the history of the art school Richard Hudson-Miles & Andy Broadly

Breaking the frame in traditional Persian paintings, a prelude to remediationBagher Bahram Shotorban, Ali Asghar Fahimifar, Mohammad Ali Safoora & Yoones A. Sekhavat

All that is solid melts in the Ethereum: the brave new (art) world of NFTs [Open Access]Anna Notaro

Journal of Visual Art Practice is a forum for advances in visual art practices and their critical contexts, engaging with diverse, global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Through its 20-year history, the journal has enabled a multiplicity of debates in art histories, theory and critique, and the inquiries of art practices, methods, and approaches. The journal is concerned with the specificities of art making as well as cross-cutting, inter- and trans-disciplinary explorations, and with the exchange and contestation of ideas and knowledge this forms. To find out more about the journal visit the journal homepage, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

We welcome and support submissions from practitioners/scholars across the full range of visual art practices, including new voices and collaborative approaches. The journal regularly publishes themed issues – if you are interested in editing a special issue contact the editors with your initial ideas.

Co-Editors Sunil Manghani ([email protected]) Robert D'Souza, ([email protected])University of Southampton

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Picture credit: Cover of Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol. 21, Issue 4, featuring Richard Hudson-Miles and Andy Broadey, detail from Untitled [After Hayman (1748-50) Artist with Grosvenor Bedford] (2021). Image courtesy of the artist reworked with kind permission from source images from Yale’s Paul Mellon Centre for British Art.