HeyJaredThe Paper Drop
Essays on modern and contemporary art history, and art's intersections with architecture, music, and poetry — attentive to form, politics, and context. Occasional dispatches in French.
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the paper drop is a publication about modern and contemporary art, literature and philosophy. I’m Alexandra Blaison, a writer and art historian based in Paris. My essays move between fragments, images and stories, bringing artists, poets, writers and thinkers into conversation as I explore different ways of being in the world.the paper drop began with a chance encounterIn 2025, at an exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans’s work, I came across his photographs Paper Drop. Standing before an image of pho
The Conditions of Meaning (opens the original)
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Thinking About Dance with Five Artists (opens the original)
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The first breathable air of the season has brought a reprieve to Paris. From the terraces, the clamour of people drinking and talking reverberates through the streets. In certain squares, on summer afternoons or in the early hours of the weekend, teenagers gather in small clusters to rehearse choreographies of their own. In front of the Comédie-Française, on some evenings, a crowd assembles to dance to live music, encircled by spectators and passers-by. Nowhere else I have lived have I seen peop
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