circulation
Capacious Tapes
The perfect container for popular, secular, religious, and underground cultural archives—and DIY cultural production and distribution—the audiocassette is still the medium of record in Afghanistan (and should be, everywhere)
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
In Moscow’s Gorky Park, a museum provides infrastructure for national social change; here, its director Anton Belov and chief curator Kate Fowle discuss programming for accessibility and integrity.
Give Me the Colors . . . and the Country
On the troubling alliance between a mayor-turned- prime minister in Tirana, the artist-godfathers of relational aesthetics, and the greatest spin doctors in European politics.
Milo van der Maaden:
the unutterable thing
The Possibility of an Airport
On the seductive paradigm of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International
Black Folks on Bikes
Interviews with members of community and advocacy groups changing the iconography of the American cyclist, with portraits of MOBB-ATL Cycling Club by Zach Wolfe.
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.
Grits
An artist’s research took her to all 13 Presidential Libraries in the United States; notes from her stopover at the Carter Center weave archival research into intimate historical fiction.
Wim Wenders’ Road
The New German Cinema director behind Until the End of the World (1991) reflects upon his 70th year, while looking forward: in the future, he predicts, we’re going to be okay.
AEROSOL
ART PAPERS’ first “fashion film” stylizes and celebrates the imperfect movements and stillness that fall in-between what usually makes the proverbial “cut.”