Atlanta
The Infinite Nature of Black
Artist Paul Stephen Benjamin’s work explores the relevance, resonance, and poetics of the color black and ranges across media including photography, painting, video, and sculpture. We discussed his belief in simplicity, the relationship between interpretation and artist intention, and the experience of preparing for his solo debut in New York City.
With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino & Tommie Smith
Zipporah Camille Thompson: Black Cloud Prism
Kirstin Mitchell: Miecznikowski
Amy Sherald: Pictures of American Life
In April 2018, as interviews with Sherald and features about her continued to stream across headlines, former ART PAPERS Editor and Artistic Director Victoria Camblin spoke with the artist about living and working in not-New York, the power of being mainstream, and how making art is a damn job.
WE RIDE THE MARTA BUS
If highways and thoroughfares are Atlanta’s arteries, its bus stops are its pulse sites— places at which human life most authentically inhabits a city on the move.
Joris Laarman
Laarman’s Lab is known for experimental and fusional methods of fabrication, and an emphasis on interdisciplinary research and practice in the fields of science, technology, aesthetics, and ideas that make their practice one of the most groundbreaking design hubs in the world today.
Designing Playful Cities
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
Beverly Buchanan
At the Brooklyn Museum, then at Spelman College in Atlanta, an exhibition reveals a practice about memory, place, and endurance, honed across manifold divides.