Spot 1: FIRE ECOLOGY

FIRE ECOLOGY

Fire Ecology

Fire Ecology has been an experiment. This publication serves as documentation of that experiment, and its outcome.

Type:
Letters
Source:
Spring 2026
Location:
Atlanta
Credit:
Sarah Higgins

Tools for Carving Away

I think the most important motivation as an artist is to use what James Baldwin has described as extracting the...
Type:
Features
Credit:
Text / Heather Bird Harris

Spot 2: FIRE ECOLOGY

FIRE ECOLOGY

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

ATLANTA ART ECOSYSTEMS

On March 1 & 2, 2025, Art Papers presented a series of public conversations that brought together members of the...
Type:
Atlanta, Collections

National Art Writing & Publishing Symposium

In 2024, Art Papers launched Fire Ecology, a 3-year, multi-part project designed to diagnose, synthesize, speculate, and report upon the...
Type:

spoil

Spoil holds a wild card of meanings that enmesh technical and aesthetic values. As the Latin spolium, spoil originally denoted...
Type:
Glossary
Source:
Summer 2024
Credit:
Text / Charlie Hailey

Spot 3: ICONOCLASM

ICONOCLASM

Monuments Under Occupation

Patricia Eunji Kim and Mashinka Firuntz Hakopian discuss monuments as physical evidence against cultural erasure, their role in preserving indigenous Armenian histories, and augmented reality as a site for activism and memorialization.

Type:
Features, Interviews
Source:
April 23, 2021
Credit:
Conversation / Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Patricia Eunji Kim

2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction

Following a nine-year hiatus since its previous edition, the Atlanta Biennial was resurrected by Atlanta Contemporary in 2016 to present...
Type:
Atlanta, Reviews
Source:
Summer 2021
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Logan Lockner

Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt

Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt defines the concept of iconoclasm as “the intentional damage to and destruction of culturally...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
July 18, 2019
Location:
St. Louis, MO
Credit:
Text / TK Smith

Spot 4: EPHEMERA & ABSENCE

EPHEMERA & ABSENCE

A Living Presence + and the body, Felix, where is it?

Christian’s essay and machado’s poem produce a dialogue that—in content and form—responds to the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. These interwoven texts can be read separately or as one dialogue in two voices.

Type:
Projects, Features
Source:
Fall/Winter 2020
Credit:
Essay / Re'al Christian + Poem / danilo machado

Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who was born into slavery. Douglass’ life...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
November 13, 2019
Location:
Savannah, GA
Credit:
Text / TK Smith

Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Chasing Things That Cannot Be Chased

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner—an elastic term that includes artist, writer, teacher, collaborator, and public speaker. In Smooooooooooooooth Operator,...
Type:
Interviews
Source:
November 9, 2022
Location:
Athens, GA
Credit:
Interview / Courtney McClellan

Carolyn Lazard: Living Here and Together

On the limitations of institutional critique, and the transformative beauty of disability justice frameworks.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Summer 2020
Credit:
Interview / Madeleine Seidel

Spot 5: THE ARCHIVE

THE ARCHIVE

The Story of Art Without Men By Katy Hessel

Katy Hessel is seizing the moment. She is in the right time and place to elevate the power and presence...
Type:
Reviews
Credit:
Text / Cathy Byrd

War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Justice Truths and Rights

War Inna Babylon is not an exhibition; it is an everyday lived reality. Although we’ve exhibited some of the experience, I want people to feel it, feel like they have to do something, and [then] ask what we do next. To understand that you can’t sit on the fence, because if you do, you are supporting the status quo.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Location:
London, England
Credit:
Interview / Stephanie Bailey

Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive

Khan—winner of the museum’s second annual UOVO prize, which is awarded to an emergent Brooklyn-based artist—moves through an array of media and materials, trying to capture the textured co-existence of multiple languages and influences.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Credit:
Text / Dina Ramadan

Cosmo Whyte: Mining the Body for Gold

TK Smith and Cosmo Whyte discuss colonial retentions, notions of home, and Whyte’s recent exhibition at MOCA GA.

Type:
Atlanta, Interviews
Source:
January 15, 2020
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Interview / TK Smith

Spot 6: RETHINKING INSTITUTIONS

RETHINKING INSTITUTIONS

The Museum Union Wave Dossier

In an extensive research project, Maxwell Paparella tracks the wave of museum unionizations in the US, which began in 2018 and collided with COVID-19.

Type:
Collections
Source:
Summer 2020
Credit:
Dossier / Maxwell Paparella

A Brief History of Power

Contributing editor Stephanie Bailey traces the lines of electrification to political power via Chilean artist Iván Navarro and the 38th EVA International in Ireland.

Type:
Features
Source:
Spring/Summer 2019
Credit:
Text / Stephanie Bailey

Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016

From psychedelic interpretations of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland to a hypnotizing drag king roaming the streets of Manhattan, Adrian Piper: A...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2018
Location:
New York, NY
Credit:
Text / Re'al Christian

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?

Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2018
Location:
Vienna
Credit:
Text / Christoph Chwatal

Spot 7: A 50 YEAR LEGACY

A 50 YEAR LEGACY

Christian Walker

Active in Boston and Atlanta from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Christian Walker was a path-making Black gay artist, critic,...
Type:
Collections
Source:
ART PAPERS Archives

Art Isn’t Neutral

Sara Wintz, Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich discuss the impossibility of neutrality

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Fall 2019
Location:
New York
Credit:
Interview / Sara Wintz

1988 Special Issue on Contemporary Black Artists

We hope these archival texts provide history and context to current conversations, as well as an insightful glimpse into the thoughts of our predecessors from more than three decades ago.

Type:
Collections
Source:
July/August 1988
Credit:
Art Papers

Interview: David Hammons

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

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