This e-book offers the findings of the conference ‘Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings: Situating “Black Artists & Modernism” in Europe After 1968’ at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, 7–9 December 2017, presented by Black Artists & Modernism in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum. The conference and the accompanying e-publication gathered artists, curators and academics to consider two broad, overarching questions: Firstly, how to rethink conceptualism intersectionally and internationally as a strategy rather than as a movement; and secondly how to situate ‘black artists’ and ‘modernism’ within Europe? The conference and corresponding publication includes key note lectures by Iris Dressler and ...

1. What does the Foreign Language Index (FLI) index? In order to address this question, I crib a 14-part structure and title that will be familiar to many readers: Rosalind Krauss’s “Notes on the Index” (1977), a “classic” English language text I have found myself engaging with in recent years. This is the second issue of the FLI produced by the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH). The selected scholarship signals a range of shifts (and some continuities) within the paradigm of global contemporary art as it has been understood for the past decade or so…