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The School of Athens
A call for a departure from the trope of the Greek capital as “southern experiment” in creative sustainability.
Cast Iron
An artist almost drowns, then reflects on Black Buoyancy, Hemingway, and Mami Wata.
Capacious Tapes
The perfect container for popular, secular, religious, and underground cultural archives—and DIY cultural production and distribution—the audiocassette is still the medium of record in Afghanistan (and should be, everywhere)
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
In Moscow’s Gorky Park, a museum provides infrastructure for national social change; here, its director Anton Belov and chief curator Kate Fowle discuss programming for accessibility and integrity.
Give Me the Colors . . . and the Country
On the troubling alliance between a mayor-turned- prime minister in Tirana, the artist-godfathers of relational aesthetics, and the greatest spin doctors in European politics.
Achieving Blankness
Notes from the edge of the Atlanta Airport
with photography by Johnathon Kelso
Art on MARTA
A photo essay by David Naugle documenting the public art of Atlanta’s rapid transit system brings a vast collection of commissions out of the stations’ shadows
with an introduction by John Cocker.
The Possibility of an Airport
On the seductive paradigm of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International
Black Folks on Bikes
Interviews with members of community and advocacy groups changing the iconography of the American cyclist, with portraits of MOBB-ATL Cycling Club by Zach Wolfe.
Wim Wenders’ Road
The New German Cinema director behind Until the End of the World (1991) reflects upon his 70th year, while looking forward: in the future, he predicts, we’re going to be okay.