From the Archives
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.
The Music Box: A Shantytown Sound Laboratory
Spaces: Antenna, The Front and Good Children Gallery
Guillermo Gomez-Peña & Keith Antar Mason
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Keith Antar Mason for ART PAPERS January/February 1993.
Helmut Middendorf
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Helmut Middendorf for ART PAPERS March/April 1990.
Lois Mailou Jones
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mildred Thompson in conversation with Lois Maliou Jones for ART PAPERS September/October 1991.