50 YEARS of ART PAPERS

ART PAPERS will conclude operations at the end of 2026, at the legacy organization's 50 year anniversary. 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS will serve as a testimonial and artifact of the organization’s singular contribution to art criticism and print media.

50 YEARS of ART PAPERS tells the story of 5 decades of independent, artist-centered, and artist-produced art criticism, offering some of the most significant texts from the magazine's history - texts that were timely, timeless, or ahead-of-their­ time. 

By tracing the work of ART PAPERS—the longest-running nonprofit art magazine in the US—this book captures the unique perspective of this geographically marginalized but culturally central publication as it grew into an internationally distributed, globally engaged publication. 

PRE-ORDERS ARE NOW CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who placed an order and to our generous sponsors. If you missed out on the chance to pre-order, you can still sign up on the website to be reminded when the book is available to purchase, and keep an eye out for ongoing production updates on our facebook and instagram pages..

Interested in stocking 50 YEARS of ART PAPERS in your bookshop? Contact us at circulation@artpapers.org