Spot 1: Climate
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.
The Good Soil: Michael John Whelan
Photographing the Global Seed Vault, an artist experiences “a sobering feeling of inescapability” at the junction of geological past and humanity’s future physical fragility.
Tropical Hangover
Between reality and escapism, magic and engineering, there is Florida, where the swamp is an unlikely breeding ground for global cultural capital and investment.
Spot 2: New Year
Cyclical Time: the Trap
Gridthiya Gaweewong explores the Buddhist notion of cyclical time in the framework of diverging artistic practices in Thailand.
Colin Renfrew: Where Are We Going?
An archaeologist at the University of Cambridge known to ask big-picture questions, such as “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?,” answers some of ours.
Flow Through: Bahar Yürükoğlu
Processing the politics of “a timeless, borderless place,” an artist proposes a new mythology.
Spot 3: Reviews
With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino & Tommie Smith
M. Lamar: American Cuck
The Un-Heroic Act
Spot 4: 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?
Spot 5: Atlanta
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.
The Practice of Circuit-Making
To “know” a city, walk it.
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.
