Features
How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room
Entwined with the whaling industry, then, which peaked in the mid-19th century, was the violence of a colonial modernity that rendered the world open for the taking.
Imagination Dead Imagine
Without a Future, We Can Be Forever
Emilio Ambasz Fables
1 MANHATTAN: CAPITAL OF THE XXTH CENTURY 1969 “Once I have grasped it, then an old, as it were rebellious,...
AIDS Art Action
This feature was originally published in ART PAPERS March /April 1989, Vol. 13, issue 2. “It is in the knowledge...
Constructing the Environmental Imaginary
I wasn’t sure what I would find at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD, but...
The American Garden in Nineteenth-Century Canton
“The enterprising American cultivator … leaves nothing untried which human industry and skill can possibly accomplish. Whether in the simple...
Letters to My Friends: Indigenous Land as Monument
Being an academic, I am often more interested in ideas than in the visceral. The idea of what creates a visceral reaction, the how, the why, the what, and then what transpires, preoccupies my busy mind. My therapist prescribed returning to my body, in any way that I can. So, a monument really has to be something to grab my attention.
Three Case Studies in Ecological Protest
At the time of this timeline’s original publishing in our Fall 2023 issue, Counter Ecologies, in Atlanta, the Stop Cop...
Stubborn Materialism: Stoppages, Blocks, and Piles
Art in urban public space contends with human patterns of attention and distraction, just as monuments, buildings, and advertisements do....
Making Time: Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields
Color, line, form move toward an undefined but perceived center—by moving out of it. Density builds, decimates, then replenishes. There’s...