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special section—december 29, 2023
In the wake of Artforum editor-in-chief David Velasco’s firing in October over an open letter signed by artists and scholars supporting Palestinian liberation, thirty-two writers retracted their pieces from the December 2023 issue, among them Adriano Pedrosa, Amy Taubin, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Çağla İlk, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Claire Bishop, David O’Neill, Erin Christovale, Erika Balsom, Gordon Hall, Gray Wielebinski, Hal Foster, Huey Copeland, Jace Clayton, James Quandt, Jason Moran, Jennifer Krasinski, Jensen Leonard, John Kelsey, John Waters, Meg Onli, Michael Fried, Nicole Eisenman, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sasha Geffen, Tiana Reid, Tiffany Sia, Tim Griffin, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Weyes Blood. Three Fold extended an invitation to several of those who pulled their writing, and to punctuate 2023, we are publishing withdrawn Artforum contributions from Claire Bishop, Erika Balsom, and Weyes Blood. As genocide continues to unfold in Gaza and epistemicide and McCarthyism proliferate globally, Three Fold Press firmly stands in solidarity with all writers and artists who oppose the atrocities and war in Gaza –Jonathan Rajewski, Editor, Visual Art


issue no. six—spring 2022
In Dedication: Rico Africa, Old Miami, Detroit
When Life Was a Gay Bar
A dossier by artist and writer Michael Conboy (Los Angeles) on the 1970s-80s Detroit scene of his youth, featuring paintings and illustrations, memoirs, drag photos, club fliers, and a short story
Three Fold Commissions: Nancy Mitchnick, Patrick Hill
Telephones by Paul Elliman
Excerpts from a pre-history of that moment when the human voice is first cut from its source in the body
Guess Where I Am by Paul Elliman
The Last to Figure It Out by Michael Jackman
Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Five
Forms of Engagement by Lynn Crawford
Poetry by Aaron Shurin, Stacy Szymaszek, Nathaniel Mackey, Norman Fischer, Jennifer Scappettone
Fiction by Evelyn Hampton, Rick London
Photo for Menjo’s advertisement, Michael Conboy, c. 1980s 

issue no. five—winter 2022
On the cover: Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, Tracey Moffatt, 35mm︎digital, 1990, courtesy of the artist © Tracey Moffatt and Women Make Movies.

Our winter 2022 issue was presented in partnership with Media City Film Festival, a trailblazing festival for film and digital art based in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Since 1994, the festival has engaged such artists as Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Alvin Lucier, and hundreds others. The 25th Anniversary virtual edition ran February 8 through March 1, 2022, featuring 70+ films from 30+ countries, in full open access globally. In conjunction, Three Fold profiled eight artists whose moving image work was celebrated in a Spotlight Series. [Read more ]
Artist In Residence In Exile, Megan O’Connell, 2021
Doom and Glory in the Cass Corridor
Part two of a dossier on Detroit visual artist Cay Bahnmiller—dream diaries, Gilbert and Lila Silverman, Der Imker (the beekeeper), mail art, communiqués, a secret spy network, Structo-vision, photography, books, and a kaddish for Cay by Cary Loren
Three Fold Commissions: Ruqayyah Alzona Al-Baari, Jim Chatelain, Chris Riddell
Bringing Detroit by Ian John Solomon, Jay Orellana and Crystal Mioner
Ruminations on Beauty by Rochelle Marrett
My First Stroll Through Eternity by Stephen Paul Trimboli
Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Four: Possession by Lynn Crawford
Poetry by Alice Notley, Peter Gizzi, Quincy Troupe, Rachelle Rahmé, Maureen Owen
Fiction by Garrett Caples, Jose Padua, Robert Lopez
Corazón Sangrante, Ximena Cuevas, México, digital, 4 min, 1993


issue no. one—fall 2020
On the cover: Say Translation is Art (excerpt), Sawako Nakayasu
In Dedication: Meditation Device by Hannah Jones & Rebecca Mazzei
What’s Been Done and What’s Been Won by Bob Ostertag with Maureen Taylor
Integral Whirls: A Dossier on Ephraim Asili by Greg de Cuir Jr
Making a Making: Jonathan Rajewski in Conversation with Bill Dilworth
Black Lives Matter? by Fred Williams
What is in a Name by Imani Mixon
Art, Ritual & Theory in Mandenka Historiography by Nubia Kai
Wild Gardening & Improvisation by Thollem
Heal Ourselves by Peter Sparling & Thollem
Hear That Snap: Joel Peterson in Conversation with Hakim Jami
The Orgasmic Space Poetry of Henry R. Lewis by Cary Loren
Malayeen by Leyya Tawil
Poetry by Laura Moriarty, John Sinclair, Khaled Mattawa, Sawako Nakayasu, Tyrone Williams
Fiction by Owólabi, Lynn Crawford
Maureen Taylor, Hannah Jones, 2020




Founded in 2020, Three Fold is an independent quarterly based in Detroit that presents exploratory points of view on arts, culture, and society in addition to original works in various media, including visual art, literature, film and the performing arts. We solicit and commission contributions from artists, writers, and activists around the world. Three Fold is a publication of Trinosophes Projects, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in the historic Eastern Market district in downtown Detroit. Click here to check out Three Fold’s events page and view a schedule of the publication’s on-site activities.

Three Fold recognizes, supports, and advocates for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. We operate on occupied territories called Waawiiyaataanong, named by the Anishinaabeg and including the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodewatomi (Potawatomi) peoples. We hold to commit to Indigenous communities in Waawiiyaataanong, their elders, both past and present, and future generations.