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Dread Scott. The Blue Wall of Violence, 1998; installation view, Dread Scott: Welcome to America, 2008. Courtesy of the Artist and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY.

“...it was significant that they felt so threatened by this work of art that they included specific wording to outlaw it. That tells you something about how fundamentally weak this country is.“

A gift from Art Practical to you, our dedicated reader. We've compiled some of our favorite podcasts from this year to accompany you while you travel, or stay cozy indoors. Happy Holidays!

what are you looking at? Ep 2: Let is scroll, let it scroll let it scroll

(un)making Ep 23: Taraneh Hemami

Decolonizing Culture: Anuradha Vikram and Vivian Sming in Conversation

A gift from Art Practical to you, our dedicated reader. We've compiled some of our favorite essays from this year to accompany you while you travel, or stay cozy indoors. Happy Holidays!

Features #Hashtags: The Big Lie by Anuradha Vikram

Whose "Again”? by Genevieve Quick

Don’t Look the Other Way by Elia Rita

Interviews Interview with C. Davida Ingram by Sarah Margolis-Pineo 

Interview with Ellie Dicola by Emily Pothast 

Interview with Aria Dean by Nat Marcus

Reviews Nando Alvarez-Perez: Portentology by Forrest McGarvey

stutter by Hyunjee Nicole Kim

“Even before Ted passed away, I had already begun to think about how we would communicate with him after he was gone. Because he was oriented in dialogue and by gift economies, it seems clear that the exchanges he began will somehow continue to circulate and to be generative.” -Ranu Mukherjee

#APaudio Team cozies up with Critical Care Packages. Buy yours today and support free rigorous discourse and fair wages for contributors. 

BUY YOUR CRITICAL CARE PACKAGE HERE: http://www.smingsming.com

Critical Care Package includes: 

(1) AP BUTTON!

(1) TOTE BAG: Meaning is Critical or Stephanie Syjuco tote limited edition original tote, silkscreen on canvas, 15 x 16 in.

(1) BOOK: Decolonizing Culture an anthology of seventeen essays writing by Anuradha Vikram that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces. published by Art Practical + Sming Sming Books. October 2017, English, 5 x 8 in, 154 pages, b/w, softcover. (1) POSTER: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action newsprint poster reproduction of Gene Sharp’s 1973 list, 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action and a companion essay, Gene Sharp: A Global Educator by Jørgen Johansen on the back. designed and reproduced by Volumes Volumes. newsprint poster, 22.5 x 30 in.

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