Spot 1: Monumental Interventions
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Patricia Eunji Kim unpacks the word monument and unearths its radical potential.
Monumental Collapse
A discussion on toppled statues and reimagining archives.
Spot 2: Public Histories
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.
Imagine New Monuments
Emily Wilkerson offers a case study of the New Orleans collective Paper Monuments.
Nacional Insufficiencies
An interrogation of pubic monuments and memorials by looking to Carlos Motta and Cynthia Gutiérrez.
Spot 3: Interviews
Chang Yuchen: Language, Use, Value
Traveling from China to the US in early 2020, the strangely fragmented temporality of solitude, and feeling useless.
Julie Mehretu: Emergent Propositions & Entropic Systems
Investigating power structures through abstraction, becoming a student of oneself, and entropic systems.
Carolyn Lazard: Living Here and Together
On the limitations of institutional critique, and the transformative beauty of disability justice frameworks.
Szu-Han Ho: COVID–19, the #PPE we all need
Emerging from simultaneous impulses toward despair and hope, Szu-Han Ho shares her thoughts about making, activism, immigration, and ecology.
Spot 4: Icons & Iconoclasts
13 Ways of Looking at an Olympic Cauldron
An oddity to many, a problem to some, and an icon to few: Atlanta’s Olympic Cauldron, (fondly) revisited.
with photographs by Johnathon Kelso
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
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: 1988 Special Issue on Contemporary Black Artists
Marketing Afro-American Artists
Afro-American artists will never get their fair share of the market until and unless white males, who control almost all the major cultural and academic institutions in our society, finally accept the well documented fact that “Western Civilization” would not exist were it not for the contributions of most of the human beings in the world.
The New Exclusionism
Catchwords like “diversity,” “transculturalism,” “pluralism” cause my antennae to go up, and warning bells of skepticism to go off in my head. Not about these ideas per se, you understand, but about the way they are being implemented in our free-enterprise society in the 1980’s.
Spot 6: Founding Stories
Founding Stories: 1980s
The Mattress Factory Group, Blue Rat Gallery, Arts Exchange, Little Beirut Art Space & Café Bizzoso.
Founding Stories: 1990s
Eyedrum, 800 East, and Young Blood Gallery.
Founding Stories: 2000s
ArtSpot, Beep Beep Gallery, Shed Space, Apache Café, and Saltworks.
Spot 7: Truth & Lies
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: Truth Bias
Carrie Lambert-Beatty discusses her latest research by way of the value of investigation, epistemological behaviors, and fake news in an age of uncertainty.
Kevin Young: The Opposite of a Hoax
On the racialized history of truth, fiction, and hoax.