Spot 1: LATEST ON ARTPAPERS.org

LATEST ON ARTPAPERS.org

Bump and Grind / Search and Destroy

This artist project originally appeared in ART PAPERS July/August 1992. Christian Walker was an Atlanta-based artist.
Type:
Projects
Source:
July/August 1992
Credit:
Project/ Christian Walker

Simphiwe Mbunyuza has something to say —
Inkobe, Umnandi Ngo Chubelana

Touch. Quietude. Play. The haptic constitutes prayer (what we do all the time these days) and longing. We mean to...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
March 12, 2024
Location:
Miami, FL
Credit:
Text / Sherae Rimpsey

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.

Type:
Letters
Location:
Atlanta, GA

End of Year Letter: 2023 -> 2024

End of Year  2023 -> 2024 2023 has been a pivotal year for Art Papers, one filled with great accomplishments and...
Type:
Letters

Spot 2: COUNTER ECOLOGIES

COUNTER ECOLOGIES

Bioshelter Toilet

With the conviction that the world’s ecosystems were under siege, fisheries biologists John Todd and William McLarney, with writer Nancy...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Meredith Gaglio

Nature’s Intelligence

Bay Area–based Chinese American architect and polymath Eugene Tssui believes that “it is the birthright of every human being to...
Type:
Projects
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Project / Eugene Tssui

Flipper, Cousteau, and Homo aquaticus

The broadcast of Flipper and Jacques Cousteau’s documentaries introduced audiences to a seemingly alien world. But these popular shows sought...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Samantha Muka

Arata Isozaki, Re-Ruined Hiroshima, Photomontage, 1968

Repeated throughout his career and intoned almost like a dirge, the potent phrase “The city of the future lies in...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Nicholas Risteen

Spot 3: HIGHLIGHTING BLACK VOICES

HIGHLIGHTING BLACK VOICES

Refusing the Here—Now: An Afrofuturist Period Room and Black Fugitivity in the Undercommons

By mixing the historical and the contemporary, the analogue and the digital, the obsolete and the futuristic, the concrete and the speculative, the installation proposes a malleable reality, an undercommons existing not in the here-now but for, and toward, the future.

Type:
Features
Source:
Summer 2022
Location:
New York City, NY
Credit:
Text / Re’al Christian

Toward a Monumental Black Body

The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?

Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2020
Credit:
Text / TK Smith

Not The Only One (N’TOO)

Not The Only One (N’TOO) is the multigenerational memoir of a Black American family told from the perspective of an...
Type:
Projects
Source:
Spring 2023
Credit:
Project / Stephanie Dinkins

1988 Special Issue on Contemporary Black Artists

We hope these archival texts provide history and context to current conversations, as well as an insightful glimpse into the thoughts of our predecessors from more than three decades ago.

Type:
Collections
Source:
July/August 1988
Credit:
Art Papers

Spot 4: DEPICTION OF THE BODY

DEPICTION OF THE BODY

Milk

Charting the historical, cultural, and scientific resonances of milk, the exhibition draws connections between protection and power. Across the works, milk closes the space between bodies. It destabilizes those things we typically consider natural, and it asks who gets to participate in the fantasy of motherhood.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
December 19, 2023
Location:
London, UK
Credit:
Text / Tallulah Griffith

Erotics of the Image

Why would it be important, right now, to defend such ambiguity and indeterminacy? Why might I counterpose, to an agenda straightforward, “in your face” lesbian representation, an alternate erotics of surrogacy and displacement? There is no question that we are in a period of intense commodification of identity, with an attendant demand for extremely reductive and normalizing approaches to image-making.

Source:
November/December 1994
Credit:
Text / Liz Kotz

I Seek to Steal the Sexual Body

This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 In my persistent drive to locate images of my radical black...
Source:
November/December 1994
Credit:
Text / Jocelyn Taylor

Against Cultural Amnesia

This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994   Cultural amnesia seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Everyone, including...
Source:
November/December 1994
Credit:
Text / Harmony Hammond

Spot 5: ADDRESSING IMPERIALISM

ADDRESSING IMPERIALISM

Constructing the Environmental Imaginary

I wasn’t sure what I would find at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD, but...
Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Dalal Musaed Alsayer

Liv Bugge: The Consequence of Touching Oil

“What is the consequence of touching oil—of coming to know it in an embodied sense? What gets destabilized when oil slips out of the category of the inhuman, even momentarily? To make an image with the body requires revaluation of the discursive function of touch. I propose that Bugge’s document of people touching oil and becoming aware of its aliveness, its animateness, awakens those people to the violent relationship humans have not only with oil, but also with the world beings that humans broadly consider inanimate.”

Type:
Features
Source:
Winter 2022/23
Credit:
Text / Natasha Marie Llorens

The American Garden in Nineteenth-Century Canton

“The enterprising American cultivator … leaves nothing untried which human industry and skill can possibly accomplish. Whether in the simple...
Type:
Features
Source:
Summer 2018
Credit:
Text / Kimia Shahi

Spot 6: CULTURAL CONSUMPTION

CULTURAL CONSUMPTION

Boy With Luv

BTS’ offers a new incarnation of the boy band, one that refuses the limitations of Western, propagandized stereotypes and White supremacist ideals, intent instead on promoting self-acceptance.

Type:
Features
Source:
August 4, 2021
Credit:
Text / Sasha Cordingley

Wong Ping: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Urban life can be alienating; it limits our mobility and entraps us in fantasy. In Hong Kong, an artist’s erotic animations offer brief release.

Type:
Features
Source:
Winter 2017/2018
Location:
Hong Kong
Credit:
Text / Stephanie Bailey

The Zombies Are Real

Kojo Griffin has a theory about the undead, the art world, and you.

Type:
Features
Source:
September/October 2015
Credit:
Text / Kojo Griffin

Culture Capitals

Letter from the Editor

Type:
Letters
Source:
Spring 2018
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Victoria Camblin

Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome

In Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, artist and activist Sunaura Taylor speaks from her own experiences toward a...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Winter 2018/2019
Location:
London, UK
Credit:
Text / Hannah Gregory

Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

*This piece will be published in our Winter 2021 issue, and is a sneak peek of what’s to come in...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Winter 2021
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Credit:
Text / Brooks Turner

Counterpublic 2019

Late afternoon sunlight floods in, through a garage door that opens into a local yoga studio, where Isabel Lewis sways...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2019
Location:
St. Louis, MO
Credit:
Text / Alexis Wilkinson

Insisting on Resisting : Counterpublic 2023

St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Emblem of Manifest Destiny....
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2023
Location:
St. Louis, MO
Credit:
Text / Cathy Byrd