Turning The Page: 2021 Contributing Editors
We are pleased to announce dramatic changes to our contributing editors list. Lauren Tate Baeza, Re’al Christian, Orit Gat, Michael Jones McKean, Humberto Moro, Joey Orr, and TK Smith join ART PAPERS as contributing editors. The seven new members join longtime contributing editors Stephanie Bailey, Paul Ryan, and Dinah Ryan. To celebrate this occasion and to highlight their outstanding work, we have compiled the following dossier of texts by each of the new and existing contributing editors.
This reboot of our contributing editors list includes writers, curators, educators, artists, and thinkers who are actively and consistently impacting the industry, shaping the discourses of contemporary art, and informing the work of Art Papers. We are delighted to welcome this brilliant and dynamic group and to collaborate with them as writers, thought partners, and ambassadors.
We are energized for the future with this new cohort of visionaries at the table. We will continue our longstanding commitment to centering artists and their ideas—valuing the outsider, the marginalized, or the irreverent perspective alongside some of the most established artists working today. We’ll continue to mine the depths of the ART PAPERS archives to publish essays and interviews with present-day relevance. We’ll expand our thematic explorations—and depart from them—with online exclusives here on ARTPAPERS.org.
Extended biographies and headshots of the new ART PAPERS contributing editors can be found here.
— Sarah Higgins, Art Papers editor + artistic director
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Terry Adkins: Resounding
Szu-Han Ho: COVID–19, the #PPE we all need
Emerging from simultaneous impulses toward despair and hope, Szu-Han Ho shares her thoughts about making, activism, immigration, and ecology.
The Moment Is Not Sufficient
“Black art” is a varied concept. The way we define the phrase is tied to the way we think about American identity and who has the ability to claim it.
Toward a Monumental Black Body
The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?
The New Civil Rights Moment: A Recap
Tracing a thread through social media and the proliferation of smart phone video cameras to today.
Michael Jones McKean: All That Lies Out of Sight
David Kim and Michael Jones McKean consider the immensity of the horizon and the poetics of a global body.
A Brief History of Power
Contributing editor Stephanie Bailey traces the lines of electrification to political power via Chilean artist Iván Navarro and the 38th EVA International in Ireland.
Art of the Airport Tower
The show and its accompanying text are a romance and an instructive meditation on the complex phenomenon of air traffic control, and on the sites of its performance.