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COOKIE JAR 2 🍪🫙 is out now! Ft. four new pamphlets by Hannah Black (@hannah_black___), Julia Bryan-Wilson (@juliaqbw1), Johanna Fateman (@johannafateman), and Minh Nguyen (@minhsometimes).

Print, PDF, and ePub formats—All for free. Read, order, and enjoy all the pamphlets included in COOKIE JAR 2 🍯 cookiejar.artswriters.org

Produced by @artswriters and edited by Pradeep Dalal (@countersystems) and Shiv Kotecha (@swervekotecha), COOKIE JAR is a pamphlet series of long-format arts writing. It is free to read in all formats. The series is named after Warhol’s vast and weird collection of cookie jars, scoured from flea markets, thrift stores, and estate sales. Each volume of the series highlights various ways through which writing may yet encounter art.

"How does art fit into the life of a writer, as on object of study or as an object of desire? The four pamphlets that comprise Cookie Jar 2 offer a range of possibilities: in the diary pages of an art critic hitting the road with her punk band, looking to check out La Meninas at the Prado; in conversations about Vietnamese socialist realism amid romantic entanglement; in the relay of telepathic artworks by women considered peripheral, and men now canonized; and in a reckoning with the dehumanization of black and indigenous people by the early American circus industry. "Every encounter, no matter how strange or new, eventually reveals the patterns of possibility innate to the life before it," writes Hannah Black in her essay for this volume, on the life and work of the artist Joseph Yoakum." —Pradeep Dalal and Shiv Kotecha, Editors

Included pamphlets:

My North Vietnamese Friend | Minh Nguyen
A Circle, A Line | Hannah Black
Minds Over Matter: Telepathy and Cold War Conceptualisms | Julia Bryan-Wilson
Your Critique is Superficial: A Le Tigre Tour Diary | Johanna Fateman

A big thank you to The Andy Warhol Foundation (@warholfoundation) for their ongoing support!

Editors: Pradeep Dalal and Shiv Kotecha
Project Coordinator: Julie Evanoff
Copy Editor: Deirdre O’Dwyer (
Design: @studio_remcovanbladel
Photos: @the_bookphotographer by @artswriters

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The 2026 Arts Writers Grant Application is NOW OPEN. The application deadline is May 6 at 11:59pm ET | Apply @ artswriters.org.

Offering $15K to $50K to support individuals who write about contemporary art in three categories, ARTICLE, BOOK, and SHORT-FORM WRITING, and $30K for TRANSLATIONS of book-length projects about contemporary art from any language into English.

We have an open application process. We recommend that you read through the Application Guide for both writing and translation grants on our website @ artswriters.org. by @artswriters

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The 2026 Arts Writers Grant Application opens in ONE WEEK. Offering $15K to 50K to support individuals who write about contemporary art in three categories: ARTICLE, BOOK, and SHORT-FORM WRITING, and $30K for TRANSLATIONS of book-length projects about contemporary art from any language into English.

The application deadline is May 6 at 11:59pm ET | Apply @ artswriters.org.

We have an open application process. We recommend that you read through the Application Guide for both writing and translation grants on our website @ artswriters.org. by @artswriters

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💥The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is excited to announce its 2025 grantees! Congratulations to the 31 writers receiving support for their Articles, Books, Short-Form Writing, and Translations!💥

💥🥳 📚🎉💥🎉 📚🥳💥

#artswritersgrant #artswriters

Articles:
Omar Berrada @omarbrrd
Miriam Felton-Dansky @feltondansky
Sohl Lee
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert @elliotjleilareichert
Zoé Samudzi @babywasu
Sunny Xiang

Books:
Maggie Borowitz @mkbwitz
Y Howard @yhoward76
Salar Mameni
Lydia Platón Làzaro @nosconocimosenlos90
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Jenni Sorkin @jennisorkin
Eric A. Stanley
Ellen Tani @cellentani
Drew Thompson
Uranchimeg Tsultem

Short-Form Writing:
Glenn Adamson @glenn_adamson
Emily Alesandrini @whitetrashcurator
Lisa Hsiao Chen @lisachichen
Jean Dykstra @jeanmdykstra
Ruth Gebreyesus @kotetakotet
Robert Alan Grand @robertalangrand
Tobi Haslett @tobi.hasl
Jeremy Lybarger
Richard May
Walker Mimms
Lilia Rocio Taboada @taboadanumberthree
Catherine G. Wagley

Translation:
Jessica Gogan @jessgogan55
Eriko Ikeda Kay @erikoikedakay
viento izquierdo ugaz @huacatayy

For more info on this year’s grantees visit artswriters.org
@warholfoundation @creative_capital by @artswriters

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“He told me about his life in the city, and maybe it was released by the liquor, but a sadness started to seep through my body. Was this lust or envy? He knew the depths of Hanoi in a way that no amount of study could ever replicate.”—MINH NGUYEN (@minhsometimes)

In “My North Vietnamese Friend,” Minh Nguyen visits Hanoi to research the historical optimism of Vietnamese socialist realism and finds herself navigating the promise of another, differently familiar romance.

Read, order, and enjoy all the pamphlets included in COOKIE JAR 2 🍪🫙 cookiejar.artswriters.org by @artswriters

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“Here I am, right now, writing. And over the past few weeks, I’ve saved some empty dated posts as placeholders. I’ll edit them to create time-stamped forgeries of regular entries; I’ll pretend that I wrote consistently on the road. I won’t pretend. I’ll create an effect.”—JOHANNA FATEMAN (@johannafateman)

Over the course of seven months in 2023, Johanna Fateman penned “Yr Critique is Superficial,” a diaristic account of the extended reunion tour of her early-aughts-era punk band Le Tigre. Amid and between the sold-out shows: the death of Sinead O’Connor; the loss of a job; a crowd gathered for an encore performance of an unsame song.

Read, order, and enjoy all the pamphlets included in COOKIE JAR 2 🍪🫙 cookiejar.artswriters.org by @artswriters

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“I take at face value claims that it is possible to transmit thoughts in this manner, from one mind to another mind, without mediation. But what is at stake when artists try to beam ideas directly to their audiences, using mental energies to catalyze new forms?”—JULIA BRYAN-WILSON (@juliaqbw1)

In “Minds Over Matter: Telepathy and Cold War Conceptualism,” Julia Bryan-Wilson investigates the eerie promise of telepathy that motivated visual artists and experimental musicians working across the globe in the 1960s and 1970s. This alternative art history maps a relay of artworks by women considered peripheral and men now canonized.

Read, order, and enjoy all the pamphlets included in COOKIE JAR 2 🍪🫙 cookiejar.artswriters.org by @artswriters

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“Every encounter, no matter how strange or new, eventually reveals the patterns of possibility innate to the life before it.”—HANNAH BLACK (@hannah_black___)

In “A Circle, A Line,” Hannah Black writes about the real and unreal memories that appear in the drawings of the self-taught, black artist Joseph Yoakum. Black’s evocation of Yoakum’s partially remembered worlds makes vivid the past’s ongoing vulnerability to destruction.

Read, order, and enjoy all the pamphlets included in COOKIE JAR 2 🍪🫙 cookiejar.artswriters.org by @artswriters

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Out now! Cookie Jar 2 📚✨

Cookie Jar is a pamphlet series of long-format arts writing produced by the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. (@artswriters) It is free to read in all formats. The series is named after Warhol’s vast and weird collection of cookie jars, scoured from flea markets, thrift stores, and estate sales. Each volume of the series highlights various ways through which writing may yet encounter art.

You can find them at cookiejar.artswriters.org

How does art fit into the life of a writer, as on object of study or as an object of desire? The four pamphlets that comprise Cookie Jar 2 offer a range of possibilities: in the diary pages of an art critic hitting the road with her punk band, looking to check out La Meninas at the Prado; in conversations about Vietnamese socialist realism amid romantic entanglement; in the relay of telepathic artworks by women considered peripheral, and men now canonized; and in a reckoning with the dehumanization of black and indigenous people by the early American circus industry. “Every encounter, no matter how strange or new, eventually reveals the patterns of possibility innate to the life before it,” writes Hannah Black in her essay for this volume, on the life and work of the artist Joseph Yoakum.
—Pradeep Dalal and Shiv Kotecha, Editors

With:
@johannafateman
@hannah_black___
@minhsometimes
Julia Bryan-Wilson

Editors: Pradeep Dalal and Shiv Kotecha (@swervekotecha)
Project Coordinator: Julie Evanoff (@julieevanoff)
Copy Editor: Deirdre O’Dwyer
Image Clearance Coordinator: Peter Goldberg
Design: Studio Remco van Bladel i.c.w. @tielbeke.sasha @princessamapola
Photos: The Book Photographer (@the_bookphotographer)

#graphicdesign #cookiejar #bookdesign taken in New York City by @artswriters

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COOKIE JAR 2: AVAILABLE IN PRINT & PDF SEPT 2025

Ft. four new pamphlets by HANNAH BLACK (@hannah_black___), JULIA BRYAN-WILSON (@juliaqbw1), JOHANNA FATEMAN (@johannafateman), & MINH NGUYEN (minhsometimes)

Cookie Jar is a pamphlet series of long-format arts writing produced by the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. The series is named after Warhol’s vast and weird collection of cookie jars, scoured from flea markets thrift stores, and estate sales. Each volume of the series highlights various ways through which writing may yet encounter art.

Edited by Pradeep Dalal (@countersystems) and Shiv Kotecha (@swervekotecha) by @artswriters

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✨ Congratulations Jordan Troeller, recipient of a 2021 Arts Writers Grant, whose book, RUTH ASAWA AND THE ARTIST-MOTHER AT MIDCENTURY, is out now @mitpress!

"For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms. This “awful dichotomy,” as painter Alice Neel put it, pitted artmaking against caretaking and argued that the best art was made at the expense of family and futurity. But in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s, a group of artists gathered around Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) began to reject this dominant narrative. In Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury, Jordan Troeller analyzes this remarkable moment. Insisting that their labor as mothers fueled their labor as artists, these women redefined key aesthetic concerns of their era, including autonomy, medium specificity, and originality.

Delving into the archive, where the traces of motherhood have not yet been erased from official history, Troeller reveals Ruth Asawa's personal and professional dialogue with several other artist-mothers, including Merry Renk, Imogen Cunningham, and Sally Woodbridge. For these women, motherhood was not an essentialized identity, but rather a means to reimagine the terms of artmaking outside of the patriarchal policing of reproduction. This project unfolded in three broad areas, which also structure the book's chapters: domesticity and decoration; metaphors for creativity; and maternal labor in the public sphere, especially in the public schools. Drawing on queer theory and feminist writings, Troeller argues that in belatedly accounting for the figure of the artist-mother, art history must reckon with an emergent paradigm of artmaking, one predicated on reciprocity, caretaking, and futurity."

#jordantroeller #artswriters by @artswriters

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✨ Congratulations Claudia Costa Pederson, recipient of a 2022 Arts Writers Grant, whose book, MEXICAN MEDIA ART, ECOLOGIES, THE POSTHUMAN, AND POLITICS, is out now @routledgeart!

"This volume focuses on the connection between ecological thought and the technological arts in Mexico in order to challenge assumptions that ecological thought is a domain exclusive to the arts of the Global North and reconceive it as an inventive nexus of materialist speculations into a global posthuman world. Tracking the concept of ecology through a series of case studies taken from the histories of new media arts in Mexico over the last 50 years (from the mid-twentieth century to the present), this book differs from ecological art histories that either ignore technological art or associate it exclusively with the Global North. It includes artists and collectives working both in Mexico and transnationally and examines collaborative projects responding to anthropogenic environmental degradation in Mexico and elsewhere."

#claudiacostapederson #artswriters by @artswriters

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