Minnie Evans’s Legacy Raises Questions About Power Dynamics Between Self-Taught Artists and the Art World

In Atlanta, the desire for critical art writing has spurred many heated debates on the question of responsibility. Whose responsibility is it to write critically about the arts in the Southeast? Which writers have the knowledge and care to write well-informed cultural analyses and critiques without regional prejudice—and, more candidly, without gender or racial prejudice? These debates have become more impassioned since Art Papers, an international art magazine based in Atlanta, announced