Spot 1: HORROR AFTER HORROR

HORROR AFTER HORROR

The Horror

How curious that Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1899) is not read as a horror story, because that’s what...
Type:
Features
Credit:
Text / Charles Mudede

Idol Horrors: The Thrills and Chills of Obsession

“What’s the difference between love and obsession?” There’s a scene in Alex Russell’s film Lurker (2025) in which Oliver (Archie...
Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2025
Credit:
Text / Brandy Monk-Payton

Listen to Our Muertos—Emperatriz Plácido San Martín

Emperatriz Plácido San Martín is an artist, activist, writer, and tattooist based in Lima, Peru and Brussels, Belgium. She works across word and image,...
Type:
Interviews
Source:
Fall 2025
Credit:
Interview / Camila Palomino

Essex Hemphill: Take Care of Your Blessings

Scale is often used as a metric of significance. For viewers eager to be emersed in proclamations of artistic genius,...
Type:
Reviews
Credit:
Text / TK Smith

Spot 2: ART WRITING + PUBLISHING SYMPOSIUM VIDEOS

National Art Writing & Publishing Symposium

In 2024, Art Papers launched Fire Ecology, a 3-year, multi-part project designed to diagnose, synthesize, speculate, and report upon the...
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Spot 3: Special 1990 Issue “On Criticism”

SPECIAL 1990 ISSUE ON CRITICISM

In this archival spotlight collection, we’re looking back at ART PAPERS Vol. 14 No. 6 from November/December 1990. This special...
Type:
Collections

Criticism and Theory

This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. In the 1970s, as wave after...
Type:
Features
Source:
November/December 1990
Credit:
Text / John Johnston

The Role of Art Criticism in the Community

This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. It was the scariest morning of...
Type:
Features
Source:
November/December 1990
Credit:
Text/ Doug Sadownick

Seriousness and Difficulty in Criticism

This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. In criticism one is often being...
Type:
Features
Source:
November/ December 1990
Credit:
Text / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Spot 4: ARTIST PROJECTS

ARTIST PROJECTS

Earth Studies

Despite the diminutive size of our bodies, the Earth, in all its grand scale and complexity, is managing to grow inside us.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Spring 2024
Credit:
Text / Michael Jones McKean

Not The Only One (N’TOO)

Not The Only One (N’TOO) is the multigenerational memoir of a Black American family told from the perspective of an...
Type:
Projects
Source:
Spring 2023
Credit:
Project / Stephanie Dinkins

Constitutionally Flawed

María Korol’s artist project traces the subtext of history and autobiography in her practice of layered obfuscation.

Type:
Atlanta, ProjectsFeatures
Source:
Spring 2021
Credit:
Project / María Korol

Daniel Rich: Energy Structures

WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, instances of hacking, digital warfare, software glitches at Nasdaq, the role of social media in recent revolutions and wars in the Middle East, and the fragility of the systems on which we depend.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Spring/Summer 2019
Credit:
Text + Art / Daniel Rich

Spot 5: Of Myths and Monsters

Of Myths and Monsters

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Devastated and Hopeful

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya is an art- and myth-maker whose work distorts the imaginary lines that exist on land between states. His chimeric “lil beings,” as he calls them, are reconfigurations of found, personal, and organic materials, which he animates with allegories of displacement, inspired by ancient Mesoamerican myth and folklore.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
September 8, 2021
Credit:
Interview / Shehab Awad

It Shall Not Be Named – Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols

The exhibition Your Monsters, Our Idols—with video, sculpture, photography, and installation works by Carlos Motta, and curated by Lucy Zimmerman—is...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Winter 2022/23
Location:
Columbus
Credit:
Text / Serubiri Moses

Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale

This review was originally published in ART PAPERS January/February 2007, Vol 31, Issue 1. Cryptozoology consists of “damned” knowledge, “inexplicable...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
January/February 2007
Location:
Lewiston, Maine and Kansas City
Credit:
Text / Gregory Sholette

Telling Stories About Ourselves: Zia Anger’s Radical Mythmaking

Zia Anger will be the first to tell you that Gray was not a successful movie. Created on a shoestring...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2020
Credit:
Text / Madeleine Seidel

Spot 6: Food for Thought; Thought for Food

Food for Thought; Thought for Food

7-Eleven Glazed Honey Bun

This winter I spent two months in Los Angeles, hoping to experience the United States in a new way and...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2018
Location:
7-Eleven
Credit:
Text / Karim Crippa

Art and Food: Better Together?

Fanny Singer sheds historical light on contemporary art practices using food sourcing, making, and eating as platforms for social engagement.

Type:
Features
Source:
November/December 2014
Credit:
Text / Fanny Singer

Milk

Charting the historical, cultural, and scientific resonances of milk, the exhibition draws connections between protection and power. Across the works, milk closes the space between bodies. It destabilizes those things we typically consider natural, and it asks who gets to participate in the fantasy of motherhood.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
December 19, 2023
Location:
London, UK
Credit:
Text / Tallulah Griffith

The National Gingerbread House Competition™

Talking (with a Gingerbread Craftswoman) Over the phone, she tells me about her experiences in college, the TV shows she’s...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
December 21, 2018
Location:
The Omni Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC
Credit:
Text / Noah Rawlings

Spot 7: FROM THE GLOSSARY

FROM THE GLOSSARY

anal

Most men, I’ve read, never see their own anuses, let alone other for-them-unthinkable verbs. My approach to the root chakra...
Type:
Glossary
Source:
Fall 2022
Credit:
Text / Edward Austin Hall

Parasite

Everyone has parasites. If you’ve ever eaten food, drunk water, had sex, or spent time in a forest, someone else...
Type:
Glossary
Source:
Winter 2022/23
Credit:
Text / Elvia Wilk

clarkston

Just outside Atlanta, one of America’s most diverse refugee destinations.

Type:
Atlanta, Glossary
Source:
March/April 2016
Location:
Clarkston, Georgia

anxiety

On fear, inhibition, and “freedom.”

Type:
Glossary
Source:
July/August 2016
Credit:
Text / Kimberly Drew