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We are Art Papers and this is what we do: For those with a taste for insightful & thought-provoking writing, interviews and artist projects we cover contemporary arts and culture. Based in Atlanta since 1976, Art Papers seeks to serve the creative community worldwide. Sign up for our e-newsletter and keep up to date with all our latest content! Graphic design: @maryhasnolamb • • • • • #artpapers #contemporaryart #creative #atlanta #mission #art #nonprofit

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“We are all the ecotones where vegetal translations of sunlight, minerals, pollen, and pollution converge to briefly coalesce into the constellation of a human self.” Check out our latest glossary entry, “Ecotone (n.)” by poet and writer Sophie Strand. As a part of our Reworlding theme, guest edited by Michael Jones McKean, this entry comes from an excerpt of Strand’s upcoming book “The Body is a Doorway” which explores the connections between bodily ecosystems through the lens of the “ecotone”: a biological convergence zone made of two different ecosystems creating a new intermediate. The intermediate, she writes, is “a living skin that belongs, not to one body’s boundary, but to two different bodily ecosystems, acting semi-porously to translate species, water, seeds and spores, between the two disparate zones.” Read “Ecotone”, now up on ARTPAPERS.org! @cosmogyny @michaeljonesmckean Image: Satellite view of Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū, or Banks Peninsula, a volcanic region on New Zealand’s south island, 2020, [courtesy of Maxar Technologies]

Meet the Advisory Board | Sarah Higgins As the Executive + Artistic Director of Art Papers, one of our esteemed Cultural Partners, Sarah Higgins also serves as an advisory board member for the #AtlantaArtFair . @artpapers is a nonprofit dedicated to publishing art writing and creating public programs that expand the dialogue around contemporary art and culture. Representing the American South globally, Art Papers offers a unique perspective that fosters a community for artists outside traditional cultural centers. We recently caught up with @pistachiocake and discovered her favorite Atlanta spots of late: Cascade Springs for nature strolls and public art by Radcliffe Bailey, Whoopsie’s on Moreland for drinks, EATS for a classic meat & 3 meal, and Temporary Studios to see her favorite artists. Learn more about Sarah Higgins, Art Papers, and her anticipation for the fair’s inaugural edition this Fall. ▶︎ —— Image Credits Image 1: Selected Art Papers covers (1987 – 2023) Image 2: Portrait of Sarah Higgins. Photo by Jill Frank (@jjjjilllllll ) Image 3: ARTPAPERS.ORG Image 4: Sarah Higgins working on Art Papers. Image 5: Spring 2024 digital cover for the ‘Reworlding’ issue Image 6: In conversation with Sarah Higgins.

Art Papers is excited to announce it has been approved by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (@warholfoundation ) for a Curatorial Research Fellowship of $50,000. This Curatorial Research Fellowship will help fund our new strategic plan of Fire Ecology which mobilizes Art Papers’ resources, collective knowledge, and historic role within intersecting communities. We will enact the ethos of fire ecology by thematizing challenges we face, convening on a multi-part discursive project to diagnose, synthesize, and report upon the current health of arts nonprofit and writing/publishing fields. Fire Ecology is the practice of maintaining ecosystem health with controlled fires to burn old growth, thereby fertilizing the soil, and clearing space for new growth. Inspired by Gramsci’s oft-quoted observation, “the old is dying and the new cannot be born...,” this project asks if we might bring forward a thoughtful sunsetting approach to supplant traditional practices of survival-at-any-cost, which too often conclude in a sudden end. Our goal is to transform the operations of this 20th-century organization into a curatorial project of interlocking research and programs to enrich the ground from which 21st-century models and practices will emerge In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages a dynamic grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the foundation has given nearly $300 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations around the country and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide. #warholgrantee #artpapers #fellowship #warhol #AndyWarholFoundationfortheVisualArts

Art Papers Contributor Conversation with architect Eugene Tssui and contributor Matthew Wagstaffe. @eugenetssui @everyoneobservesmatt Listen in as they discuss the importance of interdisciplinary thinking and the role on intuition. If you haven't already, check out Eugene's artist project, "Nature's Intelligence" and Matthew's interview with Glen Small on ARTPAPERS.org OR in our Fall 2023 issue, "Counter Ecologies", which is available for purchase in our online shop. #artpapers #contemporaryart #architecture #eugenetssui #counterecologies #4701 #fall2023

From our archives comes an interview with Nicole Eisenman by Rebecca Dimling Cochran. Originally published in July/August 2000, this interview covers Eisenman’s early installation works and the psychology behind the humor she is known for. Order your copy of this historical issue from our online shop while supplies last! @nicoleeisenman @rdcochran3 @tiltongallery Images: Nicole Eisenman, Whitney Buy Any Ol’ Painting Sale, 1995, installation detail, mixed media wall installation in the Whitney Biennial, dimensions variable [courtesy of Tilton Gallery] Nicole Eisenman, Untitled (Quicksand), 1999, oil on board, 43 x 56 inches [courtesy of Tilton Gallery] Nicole Eisenman, Airport, installation view at Grenoble, France, 1997 [courtesy of Tilton Gallery] Nicole Eisenman, Airport, installation detail, 1996 [courtesy of Tilton Gallery] Cover of July/August 2000 ART PAPERS, 24.04 • • • #artpapers #fromthearchives #nicoleeisenman #painting #installation #interview #tiltongallery #art #contemporaryart

Join us Thursday, June 27 at 2 pm ET for a Contributor Conversation on Instagram Live. Eugene Tssui will join Matthew Wagstaffe to discuss the our Fall 2023 issue: Counter Ecologies. Tssui and Wagstaffe will chat about the importance of interdisciplinary thinking, living to find solutions to the human crisis of climate change/global warming and how our built environments propagate this crisis. If you haven’t already, check out Eugene’s Artist Project, ‘Nature’s Intelligence’ and Matthew’s interview with Glen Small on ARTPAPERS.org! See you then on Instagram Live! • • • • • #artpapers #contributorconversation #eugenetssui #matthewwagstaffe #instagramlive #art #architecture #counterecologies

“Instead of succumbing to the sluggishness and wastes of time that come with the way government does things, why not be efficient for a change and prepare now for what we know, even in the absence of specifics, that climate crisis will inevitably deliver?” Check out the latest feature on ARTPAPERS.org, “Imagination Dead Imagine” by Gean Moreno + Stephanie Wakefield as they discuss the “Miami Forever Bond”, what resiliency means and what art means in the face of crisis / climate adaptation. Sign up for our weekly e-newsletter and get all the updates on ART PAPERS content and programming. Image: Stormy sunset over the Atlantic Ocean [photo: Andrew Parlette; courtesy of Wikimedia Commons] #artpapers #geanmoreno #stephaniewakefield #crisis #miami #miamiforeverbond

Experience the stunning sculptural and mixed media works on paper by internationally acclaimed artist Anila Quayyum Agha in A Measure of Time, now on view at the Jepson Center in Savannah, Georgia. Drawing from her experiences as a Pakistani woman and immigrant, Agha’s work transcends cultures and boundaries to explore our shared humanity. A Measure of Time invites you to delve into concepts of gender, identity, culture, and more. Don’t miss out! Visit A Measure of Time: Anila Quayyum Agha now through September 15! @telfairmuseums

“I think that you and I both approach the natural world similarly with our work. In a meditative and devotional way, in which we try to look deeper and deeper into the visuality and details of nature. Somehow, for me, it is the specificity of the natural world that I find important—how the same species of flower can look different from one hill to the next.” In this conversation we can find Haley Mellin and Timur Si-Qin at the intersection of art making and conservation of the natural world, including Haley’s involvement with Art into Acres. Read all about their experiences and approaches they take between artistry and activism as well as the spiritual outlooks they have towards nature. Part of our Spring 2024 theme, Reworlding, guest edited by Michael Jones McKean, this interview is now live on ARTPAPERS.org! @haleymellin @timursq @michaeljonesmckean Images: Haley Mellin, AV 15.4796°N, 90.774°W, 2022, Gouache on canvas in artist’s frame, 25.75 x 17.75 in, [courtesy of Thomas Mueller and The Journal Gallery] Haley Mellin, CT 15.4646°N, 90.7794°W, 2022, Gouache on canvas in artist frame, 12.75 x 10 in. [courtesy of Thomas Mueller and The Journal Gallery] Timur Si- Qin, East, South, West, North, installation view, 2018 [courtesy of the artist] Timur Si- Qin, East, South, West, North, installation detail, 2018 [courtesy of the artist]