This twice yearly journal encourages original material and introduces innovative work with the aim of placing visual culture - painting and sculpture, architecture and design, print, film, photography and the performing arts - in relation to wider culture, historically and geographically. It addresses a range of contemporary debates involving constructions of racial, ethnic and gender identities, nationality and internationalism, colonialism, high and low culture, the role of institutions and cultural groupings, and models of production and consumption. Each issue strikes a balance between those articles engaged primarily with theoretical and interpretive issues and those concerned with empirical research in relation to cultural production and representation.