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John A. Tyson

John A. Tyson is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art history at the University of Massachusetts – Boston. Prior to his current position, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Modern and American Prints and Drawings and British and American Painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Hans Haacke’s Double Agents: Art, Systems, and Parasitical Resistance, which will be published by Routledge.

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Online • Mar 10, 2026

American Artist’s “To Acorn” Seeds Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction into the Present

Review by John A. Tyson