Interpreting Site
ART PAPERS Summer 2024 theme, Interpreting Site, is guest edited by Sherae Rimpsey, the inaugural Mildred Thompson Arts Writing + Editorial Fellow.
Sherae Rimpsey, i wish it were a murmur, oh frog head, 2020, film still [courtesy of the artist]
The Mildred Thompson Arts Writing and Editorial Fellowship is a two-year, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded, editorial position for an emerging Black arts writer/editor. The Fellow is based at the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans and works remotely with Art Papers’ editorial team. The fellowship is named in honor of Mildred Thompson, associate editor of ART PAPERS from 1989 to 1997. This editorial fellowship builds upon her legacy. The fellowship received seed funding from AEC Trust and The Homestead Foundation to pilot the program in 2022.
cover image: Sherae Rimpsey, i wish it were a murmur, oh frog head, 2020, film still [courtesy of the artist]
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Interpreting Site
Site is a compulsion of the mind at work in the body.
Tiffany Smith: Back Home
Gestures of Refusal:
Black Photography and Visual Culture
Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is the third installment in the Seeing Black1 series curated by Shana M. griffin. Currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Gestures is vast and disarming. Before going, I wondered what it would look like: refusing / reiterating / recognizing a way of recounting (all) the ways that we appear to one another—as artists, as humans—swept up in the throes of Blackness. Recognizing. Reiterating. Refusing.
Africatown
A Site of Evanescence
Tirzo Martha: Things in Perpetual Becoming
Por ti, me doblo / Junto, te aplico
spoil
Afterlife Geographies | The Past & Other Dreams
In so far as the afterlife is accessed through the imagination, the afterlife situates what a future world might entail, and rearranges the pieces of the world, as we knew it, into a vision of the future. Afterlife Geographies considers sacred sites, sites of restoration, sites of reclamation, and sites of liberation.