ART PAPERS Archives
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.
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.