November 16: New Visitors' Comments Page posted! Check here for essays and comments that have been sent to us by Tobacco Project visitors.

Art is Irony in the Bull City

by Vicki Cheng, staff writer for the News and Observer. November 5, 2000

Duke News Service Press Release, Oct. 23, 2000

by Noah Bartolucci

Press Release from the North Carolina State Department of Cultural Resources

by Jackie Ogburn, Public Information Specialist

Tobacco Art: An Essay by Professor Stanley Abe

Surviving Beijing

by Kwong Li, Tobacco Project contributor

Invited Essays

In addition, a number of art critics and scholars have been invited to write essays in response to the Tobacco Project.

Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University

James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Fredric R. Jameson, William A. Lane, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University

Wahneema Lubiano, Literature Department, Duke University

Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art History, Duke University

Kenneth Surin, Literature Department, Duke University

Ann Lloyd Wilson, Arts Correspondent, New York Times

Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Services Professor in Art History, Department of Art History, University of Chicago