Spot 1: A NEW CHAPTER

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

Spot 2: COUNTER ECOLOGIES

Three Case Studies in Ecological Protest

At the time of this timeline’s original publishing in our Fall 2023 issue, Counter Ecologies, in Atlanta, the Stop Cop...
Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Karina Teichert

The Last Frontier Left to Conquer:
Brief Reflections on Silent Running (1972)

Silent Running, 1972, screenshot [courtesy of YouTube and Universal Pictures]  Silent Running, 1972, screenshot [courtesy of YouTube and Universal Pictures] ...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / Rami Kanafani

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

Spot 3: ON OUR MINDS

Robin Levy: A Space of Solidarity

In 2021, I traveled to see Prospect 5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow. As I prepared for the trip, a mutual...
Type:
Interviews
Source:
October 17, 2023
Credit:
Interview / Joey Orr

Tania El Khoury: Where No Walls Remain

Anna Gallagher-Ross discusses interactivity and borders as social and political constructs with Tania El Khoury.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Winter 2019/2020
Credit:
Interview / Anna Gallagher-Ross

harder / border

People who cross a border, or break through a barrier, often feel that they carry the other side within them—as one lived reality nested inside another. Selected poems from Sudanese-American author Safia Elhillo capture the poignant complexities of this condition.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Fall 2018/2019
Credit:
Verse / Safia Elhillo

Symbolic (Dis)Possession

Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.

Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2018/2019
Location:
Jerusalem
Credit:
Text / Reema Salha Fadda

Spot 4: BLUE

BLUE

Blue Cripistemologies: In and Around Derek Jarman

This critique calls for the development of transgressive strategies that allow us to retrieve, revive, and ultimately reassess work that has become mired in art myth and fraudulent provenance.

Type:
Features
Source:
Summer 2021
Credit:
Text / Christopher Robert Jones

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

Charmaine Minniefield:
Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story

Inside the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2022
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Tyra A. Seals 

Spot 5: Camouflage

Camouflage

pinetenna

How green was my uncanny valley?

Type:
Glossary
Source:
Spring/Summer 2019
Credit:
Text / Edward Austin Hall

PEN15

PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Spring 2021
Location:
Hulu
Credit:
Text / EC Flamming

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: ATLANTA

ATLANTA

Amy Sherald: Pictures of American Life

In April 2018, as interviews with Sherald and features about her continued to stream across headlines, former ART PAPERS Editor and Artistic Director Victoria Camblin spoke with the artist about living and working in not-New York, the power of being mainstream, and how making art is a damn job.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
August 6, 2018
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Interview / Victoria Camblin

Dead Ends

Atlanta’s Great Southwest Industrial Park was once home to masterpieces of American midcentury minimalism; now the site is overgrown and semi-disused, and we can’t find the Donald Judd. Photo essay: David Naugle

Type:
Features
Source:
July/August 2015
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Chris Fite-Wassilak
Photo Essay / David Naugle

Achieving Blankness

Notes from the edge of the Atlanta Airport
with photography by Johnathon Kelso

Type:
Features
Source:
January/February 2016
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Hannah Palmer; Images / Johnathon Kelso

Chattahoochee Explorers Club

Artists and educators Mark Dion, Pam Longobardi, and Mike McFalls discuss their collaborative work with Georgia State University and Columbus State University students on ecology, history, and site-responsive public art projects.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Spring/Summer 2019
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Conversation / Mark Dion, Pam Longobardi, and Mike McFalls

Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES

FROM THE ARCHIVES

7-Eleven Glazed Honey Bun

This winter I spent two months in Los Angeles, hoping to experience the United States in a new way and...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2018
Location:
7-Eleven
Credit:
Text / Karim Crippa

Consider the Hot Dog: Ivy Haldeman on an American Icon

Haldeman’s paintings capture the way quotidian images inform how we fashion ourselves, how we move about the world. They ask, “How do we wear ourselves into becoming ourselves? And what do things, such as inanimate objects and advertisements, demand from us?

Type:
Features
Source:
April 20th, 2022
Credit:
Text / Sarah Bochicchio

Art and Food: Better Together?

Fanny Singer sheds historical light on contemporary art practices using food sourcing, making, and eating as platforms for social engagement.

Type:
Features
Source:
November/December 2014
Credit:
Text / Fanny Singer