ART PAPERS Archives
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.
Philip Glass: Frontiers of the Acceptable
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thomas Rain Crowe and Philip Glass talk boundaries, social change, and the “new” music of the 21st century.
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.