circulation
Art and The Public
Plantation Horror
Plantations, as we understand them, declined after Emancipation. But the plantation of the American South has endured in the cultural imagination because of its ability to relentlessly innovate. The Southern plantation—as a place, and as an idea—has become decoupled from its violent past, making it easier to commodify for public consumption.
The Criticism of Quality and the Quality of Criticism
Criticism and Theory
The Role of Art Criticism in the Community
Seriousness and Difficulty in Criticism
Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale
Symposium Wayfinding + Accessibility
Everything you need to know about our Art Writing + Publishing Symposium.
The 2025 Mississippi Invitational: Call Home
The 2025 Mississippi Invitational, curated by TK Smith and dubbed Call Home, opens with a title wall graphic that incorporates a landline phone dangling, as if abandoned by its user. The white handset—hanging loosely by an orange spiral cord, forever suspended somewhere between connection and disconnection, sets a quietly poignant tone for the exhibition. It also poses a question: Do you make the call?