What do we preserve and why?

In the arts, discussions around institutional archives abound. With this in mind, we invited artists to deepen and expand our understanding of archives: how they’re made, who keeps them, and why they matter (or don’t). Each contributor in For the Record brings their own sensibility to the contentious practice of archiving and challenges us as individuals to archive with more intention, generosity, and openness than institutions in order to undo and prevent continued erasure.

About New Suns

New Suns is USA's online publication of commissions, experiences, and stories from artists responding to life and the world around them. Each issue centers the curious-minded ways creative practitioners challenge and reconfigure established frameworks through play, conversation, reflection, and speculation. New Suns encourages learning from and listening with the individuals behind the art.