Spot 1: Borders / Barriers
Valley Visionaries
In Los Angeles a group of Armenian-American artists sat down with Sara Wintz to discuss the whitewashing of diasporic artists’ contributions in their own historic neighborhoods – and how to fight back.
Spot 2: Ports of Call
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.
Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement
French philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy writes: “If we destroy nature is it because we hate nature? Of course not—we merely hate one another.”
He may well be right.
Spot 3: Reviews
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016
The National Gingerbread House Competition™
M. Lamar: American Cuck
The Un-Heroic Act
Spot 4: Atlanta
With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino & Tommie Smith
WE RIDE THE MARTA BUS
If highways and thoroughfares are Atlanta’s arteries, its bus stops are its pulse sites— places at which human life most authentically inhabits a city on the move.
Doris Adelaide Derby
“Not all aspects of our lives are about the injustice.” Atlanta photographer, activist, organizer, and educator on SNCC in 1960s Mississippi, Roy DeCarava, and the importance of multidimensional representation.
Spot 5: Cultural Capitals
Viva Vienna
Young gallerists inject Austria’s primary city with cultural capital, fresh program strategies, and plenty of teamwork.
Huguette Caland: A Life Coming Into Focus
Once known only to few for her erotic topographies and obsessive line, an unsung heroine of Arab modernism enters the canon.
Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum
Europe’s museums turn to institutional rebrands and infusions of contemporary art to update their imperial-era collections —but are these efforts enough?
