Research Record 2026

2026 research record · Year to date

Selected publications, public exchanges, developing research, translation, and archival records from Museum of One. The dated publication record covers 1 January to 13 October 2026. Programme statuses were reviewed on 14 October 2026.

This is a selected account, not an exhaustive annual report. Publication dates refer to the linked Museum of One records. A record's publication date does not establish when the underlying book, exchange, or project began.

Research record update, 17 October 2026

Two independent working papers by Dorian Vale were published by Museum of One on 17 October 2026 in the Museum of One Research Working Papers series. Both contribute to Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC). The earlier dated entries below retain their original coverage and programme-status dates.

Working Paper No. 1: Answerability

Answerability: Exhibition, Documentation, and Historical Evidence in Postwar Japanese Art examines how exhibition arrangements, artistic operation and photographic documentation bear on the scope and justification of art-historical claims. It develops historical answerability through engagement with Reiko Tomii’s published scholarship and following discussion and feedback from her. Dorian Vale is the sole author; this is not a coauthored paper or a statement of Tomii’s endorsement or formal peer review.

Published working paper · Version 1.0 · 17 October 2026. Publication record, full abstract, PDF and citations ↗ · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23428974 ↗ · Research programme ↗.

Working Paper No. 2: After the Interpretation Changes

After the Interpretation Changes: Correction, Completion, and the Circulation of Museum Titles distinguishes the withdrawal of a racialized museum title, the later completion of a naming intention and the circulation of collection descriptions. Its documentary case follows Simon Maris’s Isabella through Rijksmuseum, Europeana and Wikimedia Commons records. The study developed through scholarly correspondence and critical response from Alexander Viktorovich Markov. Dorian Vale retains sole authorship; selected correspondence material is included with permission, without publishing the full private exchange or implying formal peer review or blanket endorsement.

Published working paper · Version 1.0 · 17 October 2026. Publication record, full abstract, PDF and citations ↗ · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23430200 ↗ · Research programme ↗.

These publications are outputs of continuing programmes, not announcements that the wider inquiries have concluded. The individual publication records retain their rights, version statements and attribution limits.

Published research and methods

• January 2026: Measuring Proximity and From Husserl's Mathematics to Dufrenne's Aesthetics develop the published methodological sequence. Research and diagnostic tools provide associated resources for examining critical conduct.
• February 2026: Quantifying Critical Posture and Extending Post-Interpretive Criticism present further diagnostic proposals.
• 9 May 2026: Diagnostics Without Possession provides an operational reference for coding and inter-rater reliability work.

These methods remain proposals for critical inquiry. Their assumptions, coding rules, exclusions, and limits require scrutiny. Read the methods programme.

Field essays and studies

• 8 June 2026: El Anatsui's Man's Cloth Series: Redemption of Waste as Modern Eucharist.
• 6 July 2026: Hassan Sharif's Objects: The Ascetic of the Everyday.
• 29 July 2026: Art That Falls Apart: Material Fatigue as Moral Statement.

These selected essays belong to the continuing inquiry into material presence, witness, and cultural memory. Read the programme · Browse field essays.

Public exchanges and archival preservation

• 18 September 2026: Museum of One's The Conversation: Dong-Yeon Koh × Dorian Vale preserves an authorised archival record of the exchange originally published and hosted by Koh. Read the original conversation.
• 22 September 2026: On Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Dialogue between Dorian Vale and Tomoki Akimaru preserves the public exchange originally published by Art Criticism+ in Japan with both participants' consent. The record links its English and Japanese versions.

The published exchanges retain their own authorship and publication histories. Akimaru's dialogue is a supporting research resource; no ongoing joint programme is asserted.

Publication records and access

11 October 2026: The Volume I and Volume II bibliographic Pages provide current repository links and version histories. Both retain first-edition statements from 2025; their current repository versions were published in April 2026. Repository version numbers do not denote new book editions.

The Research Discovery and Archive Sources Page, also published on 11 October, brings together discovery, archive, and library catalogue links. It distinguishes corpus discovery from individual work records and notes the limits of catalogue access and unverified format details. Catalogue presence does not establish peer review or institutional endorsement.

Publication register · Digital Archive Library · Ethical Charter.

Research in development

• Dong-Yeon Koh and Dorian Vale: Between Image and Interpretation: On Restraint is a co-authored book in development. The published conversation informs the project; the manuscript remains in development. Research question and current work.
• Dorian Vale, following discussion with Reiko Tomii: Independent research into operation, documentation, and historical answerability remains in development. Tomii's historical work is attributed to her; the further argument belongs to Vale. No joint publication or endorsement is asserted. Research question, sources, and scope.
• Conceptual development: Continuing source-based research follows the vocabulary and qualifications of Post-Interpretive Criticism across its published corpus. Working distinctions remain open to examination. Research programme · Living Lexicon.

Translation in progress

Osman Omran, a Sudanese graphic and book designer and freelance translator based in Muscat, Oman, is translating Threads of Sand into Arabic. Dorian Vale authorised the work on 21 August 2026 and accepted the proposed translator's preface. Omran subsequently reported progress.

The translation is authorised and in progress. No completed Arabic edition, delivery date, or publishing agreement is announced. Translation programme · Existing English-language publication.

In development

The developing theoretical dialogue with Alexander Viktorovich Markov examines critical language and what makes a correction to an interpretation remain effective over time. No completed output or agreed joint publication is announced. Read the programme overview and its published context.

Sources and coverage

This record draws on the linked public Museum of One records available through 13 October 2026 and the accompanying programme descriptions reviewed on 14 October 2026. Dates attached to publication entries are their public record dates; the translation authorisation is a separately identified project milestone. The review date does not establish a date for an undated research development.

Private meeting records, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts are not reproduced. The record makes no claim that every activity during 2026 is included.

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Research record update, 14 October 2026

The record now connects the eight programme pages to their own outputs and developments. Published works, working papers, developing conversations, translation, and preparatory research retain the status stated in each programme.

• Paul Gladston programme: a working conversation manuscript, with a first pass of responses returned and Vale’s follow-up as the next stage.
• Critical Language and Lasting Correction: a developing dialogue and a separately attributed independent documentary working study by Vale.
• Operation and Historical Answerability: the title and independent working-paper status of Answerability: Exhibition, Documentation, and Historical Evidence in Postwar Japanese Art are recorded in the programme.
• Methods and Witness and material memory: an anonymous curatorial micro-study remains preparatory.

Responsibility and corrections

Tarique, publishing as Dorian Vale, is responsible for editorial selection, production, metadata, and corrections. Dated programme developments and publication records are the evidence for this account. Substantive corrections are recorded with a date and explanation; rights follow the individual work or edition.

Institutional responsibility and corrections · Publisher Imprint · Ethical Charter · External Records · Archive access and preservation.

Revision note, 14 October 2026: added the programme developments already approved for public status reporting, reciprocal links from published works, research summaries, and citation downloads. Existing publication dates and edition distinctions are retained.

Research development update, 22 October 2026

Five programme records now connect their published sources to specific developments and next investigations. These additions record the public research position and study plans as of 22 October 2026.

• Operation and historical answerability: the published study qualifies the application of restraint; further tests concern retention under challenge and documentary identity.
• Critical language and lasting correction: the documentary study distinguishes surviving wording from renewed authority; a further case would need evidence of a correction’s receipt and subsequent use.
• Intellectual history: three sourced reading notes follow restraint, answerability and correction across the public texts.
• Methods: a study plan sets out the material, procedure and intended record for independent comparative reading.
• Threads of Sand: the programme connects its translation milestone with the study of Sudanese art and cultural memory.

The two working papers remain the independently authored publications recorded on 17 October. Their next investigations are study plans. Earlier entries retain their stated coverage dates; no new completed study, participant result, Arabic edition or joint publication is reported by this update.

Last checked: 26 October 2026.