ART PAPERS Archives
A Letter to Our Readers
We are launching a three-year strategic plan designed to celebrate the legacy of Art Papers, to mobilize the organization’s resources in service to the cultural community, and to thoughtfully arrive at meaningful and controlled conclusion of operations in 2026, at 50 years.
Amalia Amaki/Liz Hampton
Arrested Childhood
Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda: Labyrinths
Uses of the Erotic: Sexuality and Difference in Lesbian Film and Video
Erotics of the Image
Why would it be important, right now, to defend such ambiguity and indeterminacy? Why might I counterpose, to an agenda straightforward, “in your face” lesbian representation, an alternate erotics of surrogacy and displacement? There is no question that we are in a period of intense commodification of identity, with an attendant demand for extremely reductive and normalizing approaches to image-making.
I Seek to Steal the Sexual Body
Against Cultural Amnesia
For the Reasons of Poetry: Arting in Space
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robert Horvitz explores NASA’s Get-Away Special program, and how artists such as Lowry Burgess and Joseph McShane used the program for early experiments with artworks in space.
Much Ado About Nothing
An empty plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square sparks a public debate.