The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal that draws on the work of the Gray Center, a research center for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars.

The Portable Gray launch party will be held on Thursday, November 29, from 5:30 to 7 pm at the Gray Center Lab, 929 East 60th Street on the University of Chicago campus.Join us to meet contributors and take away a complimentary copy of the inaugural issue.

Published twice annually (fall/spring) by the University of Chicago Press, Portable Gray is a forum for experimenting with two genres of publication, the scholarly journal, and the art magazine. Each issue constellates around a theme, which it treats elastically and through myriad forms: artworks, essays, interviews, reflections, photography, poetry among others.

The  first issues looks at the coupling of art & politics and includes the  following contributions:

"Making Things Public: Art Magazines, Art Worlds, and the #MeToo Movement"
by Gwen Allen

"Money, Land, Film, Future: in conversation"
by Jacqueline Stewart and Ben Caldwell

"Imagining Futures (IF): A Survey"
by Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Patrick Jagoda

Feature: What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?

Perspective
by Mike Schuh

Response
by Tania Bruguera

Perspective
by Leigh Fagin

Response
by Sandi Hilal (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency)

Response
by Alessandro Petti (Decolonizing Architecture ArtResidency)

Perspective
by Susan Gzesh

"The Virtues of Ignorance: Interview with Dieter Roelstraete and Pope.L"
by Zachary Cahill

"Maps of Englishness"
by Yesomi Umolu

"Fake Fate"
by Jan Verwoert **Free article** https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/701371

"horror movie pitch and horror movie pitch 2"
by Eve L. Ewing

Subscription information: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pog/current

Portable Gray
Executive editors: Jacqueline Stewart and Seth Brodsky
Editor-in-chief: Zachary Cahill 
Managing editor: Naomi Blumberg 
Design: David Khan-Giordano 
Contributing editor: Mike Schuh
ISSN 2637-8361