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Porous Cosmopolis: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s many co-extensive projects merge activist praxis, intellectual and skill exchange, horizontalist planning, and creative production to examine and change the way that borders, and the communities around them, are conceived of and function.
The Infinite Nature of Black
Artist Paul Stephen Benjamin’s work explores the relevance, resonance, and poetics of the color black and ranges across media including photography, painting, video, and sculpture. We discussed his belief in simplicity, the relationship between interpretation and artist intention, and the experience of preparing for his solo debut in New York City.
We Were Creative Before We Were Human
Freshly back from excavating in the Afar desert of northeast Ethiopia, Yonas Beyene PhD sat down in his Addis Ababa office to discuss the origins of human creativity.
Behind the Screen(print) with Amy Pleasant
In late 2018, we reached out to artist Amy Pleasant and invited her to create an edition of prints for the 20th Annual ART PAPERS Auction. Sarah Higgins caught up with Amy on the final day of a week-long visit to the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of the Arts.
Valley Visionaries
In Los Angeles a group of Armenian-American artists sat down with Sara Wintz to discuss the whitewashing of diasporic artists’ contributions in their own historic neighborhoods – and how to fight back.
New Frontiers
Current developments in London highlight the politics of “Creative Quarters.”
Neither Queer nor There
From the archives—essayist Matt Morris contends that the burgeoning queer hip-hop movement provides a different context for articulating “queer.” It’s not just a theory anymore!
Eye Candy Is Dandy
From the archives—the linkage between Rashaad Newsome’s “Heraldry” series, and a new-millennial Black dandyism as embodied by A$AP Mob.
John Lewis: March
A Body of Work
An ART PAPERS contributor leaves arts writing for nursing school; his decision is personal, political, and productive of a new understanding of criticism.