ART PAPERS Archives
The New Exclusionism
Catchwords like “diversity,” “transculturalism,” “pluralism” cause my antennae to go up, and warning bells of skepticism to go off in my head. Not about these ideas per se, you understand, but about the way they are being implemented in our free-enterprise society in the 1980’s.
Where is the Art World Left?
Where is the artworld “Left” in the age of “trickle-down,” homelessness, the rise of the Aryan Nation and corporate art coma: a dehumanization of art and artist into a common denominator of profit?
Interview: David Hammons
“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art, ever.”
Marketing Afro-American Artists
Afro-American artists will never get their fair share of the market until and unless white males, who control almost all the major cultural and academic institutions in our society, finally accept the well documented fact that “Western Civilization” would not exist were it not for the contributions of most of the human beings in the world.
In Memoriam: Romare Bearden (1914-1988)
David C. Driskell pays homage to Romare Bearden.
Emma Amos
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Emma Amos for ART PAPERS March/April 1995.
Theaster Gates
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Theaster Gates in conversation with Hesse McGraw.
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
Convention Culture: New Orleans ’88
As summer steamed into oblivion it was tempting to say that nothing much was happening or had happened in the period before and after the Republican convention. Yet in its own way that media spectacle has by its sheer banal extravagance provided a kind of contextual frame around things, for matters both pointed and tangential.