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The Onyx Journal of Arts & Visual Culture (OJAVC) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Onyx Press. OJAVC publishes scholarly articles, critical essays, exhibition reviews, and visual studies that engage with the visual arts, art history, theory of art, and contemporary cultural practices. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work that connects art with philosophy, technology, politics, and society, and is committed to fostering dialogue among artists, critics, historians, and theorists across global and regional contexts.


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OJAVC Launches Decolonial Curatorial Practices Essay Series

Onyx Press announces the launch of the Decolonial Curatorial Practices essay series, a year-long programme of commissioned critical essays published continuously in the Onyx Journal of Arts & Visual Culture. The series is guest-edited by Dr. Aïssata Koné (Université de Bamako) and Dr. Hēmi Whaiapu (University of Auckland), and will publish two long-form essays per month between September 2026 [...]

OJAVC Releases Open Framework for AI-Assisted Provenance Research in Cultural Heritage

The Onyx Journal of Arts & Visual Culture (OJAVC) has released the first open, peer-reviewed methodological framework for AI-assisted provenance research in cultural heritage institutions. The protocol, developed by an international working group of curators, computer scientists, and legal scholars, is published as a 48-page position paper accompanied by a fully open-source toolkit. The [...]