Spot 1: COUNTER ECOLOGIES

COUNTER ECOLOGIES

Environment

The poet Theognis, back around the sixth century BCE, celebrated the octopus for its “ingenuity” in mimicking “the color of...
Type:
Glossary
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Drew Zeiba

On Coconuts and Earthships
Interview with Mae-Ling Lokko

Mae-ling Lokko—an architectural scientist from Ghana and the Philippines, and an assistant professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture—is best...
Type:
Interviews
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Interview / Eva Lavranou

Counter Ecologies

The “environment” is a nebulous thing. Its meaning takes on new dimensions every decade or so, signifying everything including place,...
Type:
Letters
Credit:
Text / Carson Chan, Eva Lavranou, Dewi Tan, Matthew Wagstaffe

Spot 2: REFUSAL, RENEWAL

Stubborn Materialism: Stoppages, Blocks, and Piles

Art in urban public space contends with human patterns of attention and distraction, just as monuments, buildings, and advertisements do....
Type:
Features
Source:
Summer 2023
Credit:
Text / Gabriel Cira

Athleticism

The Athleticism of Rest I descended from a plane out of Chicago, still steamy from the hotbeds of a world premiere...
Type:
Glossary
Source:
Summer 2023
Credit:
Text / Jerron Herman

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take

The dancer is not present  In a dark room, a white spotlight hits a vacant dance floor. Three channels of...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2023
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Credit:
Text / Kit Edwards

Spot 3: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Stephanie Dinkins: Building Something Now

In a recent conversation, a colleague made the claim that the math supporting the technology under discussion was not cultural....
Type:
Interviews
Source:
April 26, 2023
Credit:
Interview / Joey Orr

Heritage Algorithms and Other Letters to the Future

Over twenty years ago, the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The...
Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2023
Credit:
Text / Erica N. Cardwell

Artificial Intelligence

Letter from the Editors

Type:
Letters
Source:
Spring 2023
Credit:
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian + Sarah Higgins

Alison Nguyen’s Andra8 and the Gig Workers of the Data Economy

Sitting in front of a wrinkled sea-green backdrop is Andra8, the protagonist of Alison Nguyen’s 19-minute film my favorite software...
Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2023
Credit:
Text / Sasha Cordingley

Spot 4: WHOSE SOUTH?

WHOSE SOUTH?

Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning

Jamal Cyrus’ The End of My Beginning is a survey exhibition that includes more than 40 works made over a...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Spring 2023
Location:
Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art
Credit:
Text / Chad Dawkins

The Eyes Were Always on Us

The Eyes Were Always on Us opened March 23 at the United Talent Agency’s new Atlanta gallery on Peachtree Street—a...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
April 19, 2023
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Y. Malik Jalal

Atlantis, GA

At the largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, the alien world of the ocean has corporate sponsors.

Type:
Features
Source:
May/June 2016
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Carson Chan

Spot 5: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City

The urban landscape can be seen as a transcription of a city’s history. In St. Louis, the construction and destruction of brick buildings reveal a racialized history of segregation and inequality.

Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2018/2019
Location:
St. Louis, Missouri
Credit:
Text / TK Smith; Images / Izaiah Johnson

Porous Cosmopolis: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s many co-extensive projects merge activist praxis, intellectual and skill exchange, horizontalist planning, and creative production to examine and change the way that borders, and the communities around them, are conceived of and function.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
March 13, 2019
Credit:
Interview / Rachael Rakes

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.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Summer 2018
Credit:
Interview / Heidi Ballet; Images / Tamiko Thiel

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.

Type:
Projects, Features
Source:
Spring 2021
Credit:
Text / Gabriel Cira
Photos / Pat Falco

Spot 6: ENVIRONMENTS

ENVIRONMENTS

I Will Not Be Purified

Anyone who has ever been life-threateningly ill will know the desperation it breeds. You’ll try anything. You’ll do anything. And when treatments fail, and doctors—shockingly unskilled in empathy—shrug and suggest this means you will die, you start looking anywhere for help.

Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2021
Credit:
Text / Sophie Strand

Indicting the Poisonous Imaginary—Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal

In 2021 D’Souza and Staal came together to stage the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Described as “a more-than-human tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes” committed by Unilever, ING, Airbus, and the Dutch state, the court drew from D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations.

Type:
Features, Interviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Credit:
Interview / Stephanie Bailey

The Energy Paradox

Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.

Type:
Features
Source:
Spring/Summer 2019
Location:
Tokyo, Japan
Credit:
Text / Jason Waite

Stocktaking

Daniel Keller in conversation with Femke Herregraven.

Type:
Features, Interviews
Source:
Summer 2018
Credit:
Interview / Femke Herregraven + Daniel Keller

Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES

FROM THE ARCHIVES

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

Interview: David Hammons

“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art, ever.”

Source:
July/August 1988
Credit:
Interview / Kellie Jones

Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina

Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.

Source:
March/April 2006
Location:
New Orleans
Credit:
Text / D. Eric Bookhardt

The Museum Union Wave

No one could remember a time when wages for work in the arts met the cost of living in an American city.

Type:
Features
Source:
Summer 2020
Credit:
Text / Maxwell Paparella