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‘Tis the season for taking stock of what we’ve accomplished in 2024, and for looking forward to what the future holds. On behalf of everyone at Art Papers, I want to thank the individuals and foundations who rallied to support our mission this past year.

Constant Dullaart advocates for intelligent communication, adapted for the state of privacy in the digital age.

Radical communities update—and revindicate—off-the-grid feminist movements of the 1970s.

Ideas for affordable housing from the Institute for Public Architecture.

Gabriel Cira reveals how confounding façades can also reinforce the dominant narrative by masking economic differences to favor a mirage of homogeneity. Photos by Pat Falco.

Jemma Desai’s essay “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories,” whispers abolition and points to the question: What if we say no?

Sara Wintz, Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich discuss the impossibility of neutrality

Where is the artworld “Left” in the age of “trickle-down,” homelessness, the rise of the Aryan Nation and corporate art coma: a dehumanization of art and artist into a common denominator of profit?

Catchwords like “diversity,” “transculturalism,” “pluralism” cause my antennae to go up, and warning bells of skepticism to go off in my head. Not about these ideas per se, you understand, but about the way they are being implemented in our free-enterprise society in the 1980’s.

In It’s Still Not Me, It’s You at Atlanta’s Echo Contemporary Art, Platner’s self-portraits and installations invite the viewer into her world. She coaxes empathy through a variety of strategies, some that are playful and interactive, others that involve showing pain.