ART PAPERS 40.01 - Jan/Feb 2016

Atlanta is a place built around its transportation infrastructure, not the other way around. ART PAPERS was founded in Atlanta in 1976, during a decade of particularly energetic regional and national growth both for the art and art publishing communities. It is with this history and these new discussions in mind that ART PAPERS begins our 40th anniversary year, and launches a special edition of our magazine "Terminus," named for and devoted to the force of our home city's transportation legacy, and its impact on art, design, and the urban plan.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Letters from the Editors
Victoria Camblin & Ryan Gravel

The Possibility of an Airport
Reinier de Graaf
On the seductive paradigm of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International

Achieving Blankness
Hannah Palmer
Notes from the edge of the Atlanta Airport
with photography by Johnathon Kelso

Megabus, and Other Routes
Jasmine Amussen
Intimate reflections on southern inter-city travel
with new photocollage by artist Erin Jane Nelson

Black Folks on Bikes
zahra alabanza
Interviews with members of community and advocacy groups changing the iconography of the American cyclist
with portraits of MOBB-ATL Cycling Club by Zach Wolfe

Art on Marta (part 2)
David Naugle
A photo essay documenting the public art of Atlanta's rapid transit system brings a vast collection of commissions out of the stations' shadows
with an introduction by John Cocker

Art on the Beltline
Victoria Camblin, Daniel Fuller, and Ryan Gravel
A comparative look at public art initiatives on transit greenways, and a case for curating for infrastructure, and designing for art
with research by Grace Thornton
CASE STUDY

Assemble
Two projects by the Turner Prize winning design collective transform disused urban spaces into venues for public and artistic programming
text and images by Assemble
SYLLABUS

Autohaus:
Toward a New Typology for Living and Driving
Volkan Alkangolu
A course description proposes a study of the garage, birthplace of Apple and Nirvana, and architectural key to suburban design
EXCERPT

Roundabout Revolutions
Eyal Weizman
In "Islands" and "Circles of Hell," two chapters from a recent release from Sternberg Press, an often maligned traffic intersection becomes a catalyst for social change

M+
A Museum at Future Crossroads
Lilly Lampe
In Hong Kong, a massive new cultural district is also the rail gateway to and from Mainland China

Reviews

Universal Serial Bus
Sarah Demeuse

Art of the Airport Tower
Dinah Ryan

NASA Graphic Standards Manual
Robert Wiesenberger

Office Space
Courtney Malick

6th Street Viaduct
John Southern

The State of the Art of Architecture
Zac Rose

Strange Tools
Robbie Kubala

Glossary: Uber
Keller Easterling
Once just a prefix, an old superlative becomes a noun, a verb, an adverb, an adjective— and a universal elementary particle