From the 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.
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.
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.
The Principles of Participatory Art
Artists using other humans in their work may require examination, monitoring, and a philosophical prescription.
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
Convention Culture: New Orleans ’88
As summer steamed into oblivion it was tempting to say that nothing much was happening or had happened in the period before and after the Republican convention. Yet in its own way that media spectacle has by its sheer banal extravagance provided a kind of contextual frame around things, for matters both pointed and tangential.
Jacqueline Humphries
From Field Testing to Even Exchange: Mel Chin
D. Eric Bookhardt talks with Mel Chin about his current New Orleans projects Operation Paydirt and Safehouse.
Danger in the Liminal Spaces
Instead of pigments on canvas, the computer manipulates pixels in a monitor where the visible world is reduced to infinitely shifting variations on the screen.