Paper Monument #1

Paper Monument

Christopher Hsu

J.D. Daniels

Katie Sonneborn

Jason Murison

David Kearns

James Bae

Megan Heuer

Naomi Fry

Brian Sholis

Arts & Photography

Paper Monument's first pamphlet, I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette, has contributions from 38 artists, critics, curators, and dealers on the sometimes serious and sometimes ridiculous topic of manners in the art world. The art world is now both socially professional and professionally social. Curators visit artists studios; collectors, dealers, and journalists assemble for a reception and reconvene later for dinner; everyone goes to parties. We exchange introductions and small talk; art is bought and sold; careers (and friendships) brighten or fade. In each situation, certain behaviors are expected while others are silently discouraged. Sometimes, what s appropriate in the real world would be catastrophic in the art world, and vice versa. Making these distinctions on the spot can be nerve-wracking and disastrous. So we asked ourselves: What is the place of etiquette in art? How do social mores establish our communities, mediate our critical discussions, and frame our experience of art? If we were to transcribe these unspoken laws, what would they look like? What happens when the rules are broken? Since we didn t have all the answers, we politely asked our friends for some help.

I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette

History & Criticism

Paper Monument 2009-08-01

Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Practical and quixotic in equal parts, the art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve. The book is a written record of an evolving oral tradition. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, Draw It with Your Eyes Closed serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.

Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment

n+1 Foundation

"Since the turn of the millennium, artists have been writing, and circulating their writing, like never before. The seventy-five texts gathered here--essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and tweets--chart a complex era in the art world and the world at large, weighing in on the exigencies of our times in unexpected and inventive ways." -- Publisher's description. Contributions by Jimmie Durham, Hito Steyerl, Mike Kelley, Adam Pendleton, Ai Weiwei, Frances Stark.

Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000-2015

Critics who “have an agenda” are admonished for putting social, ideological, or political concerns ahead of honest judgments. But are judgments ever neutral? How can agendas productively heighten the stakes and impact of criticism? In Track changes: a handbook for art criticism, twenty-five art writers and editors share strategies for critical writing and editing that show how articulating goals and values can lead to more thoughtful publishing practices and actively challenge structural inequalities within the art world. Collecting case studies, conversations, manifestos, and reflections on the technical and ethical choices that writers and editors face, Track changes is a rigorous, practical, and supportive guide to art criticism―a mentor in book form. The chapters follow the stages of the editorial process, at each step examining the field’s assumptions, foregrounding strategies for solidarity and reparative decision-making, and envisioning an intersectional feminist approach. With contributions by: Kemi Adeyemi, Andy Campbell, Erica Cardwell, Re’al Christian, Aruna D’Souza, Leslie Dick, Amy Fung, Merray Gerges, Annie Godfrey Larmon, Ariel Goldberg, Yves Jeffcoat, Dana Kopel, Yaniya Lee, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Jessica Lynne, Tausif Noor, Ashley Stull Meyers, Lindsay Preston Zappas, Kristina Kay Robinson, Jillian Steinhauer, Ana Tuazon, Monica Uszerowicz, Wendy Vogel, Emily Watlington, Elisa Wouk Almino.

Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism

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