Spot 1: LATEST ON ARTPAPERS.org
Emilio Ambasz Fables
Larping Adulthood: Freeville to Midlands
The 2nd Helsinki Biennial’s Call to Action
The 12th Liverpool Biennial: Actual and Curatorial Displacements
Spot 2: CHRISTIAN WALKER COLLECTION
Interview with Andres Serrano
Interview with Lucinda Bunnen and
Virginia Warren Smith
Bump and Grind / Search and Destroy
Interview with Mary Ellen Mark
Spot 3: QUEERING NARRATIVES
Kenneth Tam: The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies
Re’al Christian speaks with Kenneth Tam about his recent work Silent Spikes; the entwined mythologies of American Cowboys with Chinese laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad; and the intimacy—and intensity—of male coming-of-age rituals.
Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar
Queer Intimacy: A Conversation with Diedrick Brackens
The implications of emerging fully black and fully queer into the art world, and of creating images wherein men touch.
BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One
Spot 4: THOUGHT FOR FOOD
Milk
Charting the historical, cultural, and scientific resonances of milk, the exhibition draws connections between protection and power. Across the works, milk closes the space between bodies. It destabilizes those things we typically consider natural, and it asks who gets to participate in the fantasy of motherhood.
7-Eleven Glazed Honey Bun
Consider the Hot Dog: Ivy Haldeman on an American Icon
Haldeman’s paintings capture the way quotidian images inform how we fashion ourselves, how we move about the world. They ask, “How do we wear ourselves into becoming ourselves? And what do things, such as inanimate objects and advertisements, demand from us?
Binge Watch—On Performances of Excessive Eating
“The act of binging is one of abjection. It demonstrates the power of something inanimate, or no longer animate, over human beings—in this case, food. The abject manifests viscerally as squirming, belching, or vomiting. Such images threaten the common belief that eating is pleasurable, a notion that begins in infancy.”
Spot 5: FROM OUR GLOSSARY
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Environment
Spot 6: CULTURAL CONSUMPTION
Boy With Luv
BTS’ offers a new incarnation of the boy band, one that refuses the limitations of Western, propagandized stereotypes and White supremacist ideals, intent instead on promoting self-acceptance.
Wong Ping: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Urban life can be alienating; it limits our mobility and entraps us in fantasy. In Hong Kong, an artist’s erotic animations offer brief release.
The Zombies Are Real
Kojo Griffin has a theory about the undead, the art world, and you.
Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES
Gatecrashing with Katherine Jentleson
An interview introduces Katherine Jentleson, scholar and curator of folk art, now at the High Museum of Art.
War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Justice Truths and Rights
War Inna Babylon is not an exhibition; it is an everyday lived reality. Although we’ve exhibited some of the experience, I want people to feel it, feel like they have to do something, and [then] ask what we do next. To understand that you can’t sit on the fence, because if you do, you are supporting the status quo.
All My …/All My— Designing Motherhood and the Labyrinth of Reproductive Health
The breathtaking range of topics in Designing Motherhood—choices of whether to conceive children or take a pregnancy to term, infant mortality, sterilization abuse, thalidomide, cesarean birth curtains, masculine birth, baby formula, the faja (a wrap for binding a postpartum abdomen), gender reveals, the Del Em Device, car seats, carers and carrying, the tie-waist skirt, the breast pump, and so on—reveals the immense, intricate knowledge necessary to understand reproductive health, and to advocate for conditions that promote wellbeing.
Bleeding Out: On the Use of Blood in Contemporary Art
Blood corrupts conventions of purity and privacy to suggest all elements of the body can be used for expression.