Features
Africatown
My first visit to Africatown was by way of US Highway 90 and the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge, which spans the Mobile...
A Site of Evanescence
How do you perform with an endangered fish? By becoming imperceptible. How do you become imperceptible? By finding the point...
A Ceramic Materials Atlas
Organizing these materials in our studio is the outermost tip of a complex global distribution network of intricate webs of highways, shipping routes, rail lines, and flight paths—a planetary vascular system and neural network, a pulsing flow of matter and information covering the surface of the earth.
How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room
Entwined with the whaling industry, then, which peaked in the mid-19th century, was the violence of a colonial modernity that rendered the world open for the taking.
Imagination Dead Imagine
Without a Future, We Can Be Forever
Some Notes on Alternative Arts Publications: The Alternatives’ Dance for Money or Walking on a Tightrope
This feature was originally reprinted in ART PAPERS July/August 1991, Vol. 15, issue 4. When I initially began writing this...
Closing Shots From An Editor
This feature was originally reprinted in ART PAPERS July/August 1991, Vol. 15, issue 4 after having originally been published in...
Cultural Triage and The Demise of the Non Profit
This feature was originally reprinted in ART PAPERS July/August 1991, Vol. 15, issue 4. Most discussions about the current “crisis”...
Emilio Ambasz Fables
1 MANHATTAN: CAPITAL OF THE XXTH CENTURY 1969 “Once I have grasped it, then an old, as it were rebellious,...
Larping Adulthood: Freeville to Midlands
At my elementary school, we maintained a post office, participated in kids’ voting, and took a lesson in free market...