Spot 1: A NEW CHAPTER
A Letter to Our Readers
We are launching a three-year strategic plan designed to celebrate the legacy of Art Papers, to mobilize the organization’s resources in service to the cultural community, and to thoughtfully arrive at meaningful and controlled conclusion of operations in 2026, at 50 years.
Spot 2: COUNTER ECOLOGIES
Three Case Studies in Ecological Protest
The Last Frontier Left to Conquer:
Brief Reflections on Silent Running (1972)
On Coconuts and Earthships —
Interview with Mae-Ling Lokko
Spot 3: ON OUR MINDS
Robin Levy: A Space of Solidarity
Tania El Khoury: Where No Walls Remain
Anna Gallagher-Ross discusses interactivity and borders as social and political constructs with Tania El Khoury.
harder / border
People who cross a border, or break through a barrier, often feel that they carry the other side within them—as one lived reality nested inside another. Selected poems from Sudanese-American author Safia Elhillo capture the poignant complexities of this condition.
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.
Spot 4: BLUE
Blue Cripistemologies: In and Around Derek Jarman
This critique calls for the development of transgressive strategies that allow us to retrieve, revive, and ultimately reassess work that has become mired in art myth and fraudulent provenance.
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
Charmaine Minniefield:
Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story
Spot 5: Camouflage
PEN15
PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.
Architectural Camouflage and the Class Dynamics of Housing
Gabriel Cira reveals how confounding façades can also reinforce the dominant narrative by masking economic differences to favor a mirage of homogeneity. Photos by Pat Falco.
Spot 6: ATLANTA
Amy Sherald: Pictures of American Life
In April 2018, as interviews with Sherald and features about her continued to stream across headlines, former ART PAPERS Editor and Artistic Director Victoria Camblin spoke with the artist about living and working in not-New York, the power of being mainstream, and how making art is a damn job.
Dead Ends
Atlanta’s Great Southwest Industrial Park was once home to masterpieces of American midcentury minimalism; now the site is overgrown and semi-disused, and we can’t find the Donald Judd. Photo essay: David Naugle
Achieving Blankness
Notes from the edge of the Atlanta Airport
with photography by Johnathon Kelso
Chattahoochee Explorers Club
Artists and educators Mark Dion, Pam Longobardi, and Mike McFalls discuss their collaborative work with Georgia State University and Columbus State University students on ecology, history, and site-responsive public art projects.
Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES
7-Eleven Glazed Honey Bun
Consider the Hot Dog: Ivy Haldeman on an American Icon
Haldeman’s paintings capture the way quotidian images inform how we fashion ourselves, how we move about the world. They ask, “How do we wear ourselves into becoming ourselves? And what do things, such as inanimate objects and advertisements, demand from us?
Art and Food: Better Together?
Fanny Singer sheds historical light on contemporary art practices using food sourcing, making, and eating as platforms for social engagement.