Curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill

“The paper newspaper is still the most viable business model for getting journalists paid to do the reporting essential to a democracy,” proclaimed the editors of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, counterintuitively, in a manifesto prefacing last winter’s special issue, which took the form of a gloriously old-school broadsheet. With similar optimism but a bit more realism, “The Last Newspaper” will combine artworks, discussions, participatory projects, and simulations of actual newspaper offices to critically assess the medium as a vehicle for collecting and disseminating information today. Participants will include groups such as the Center for Urban Pedagogy, StoryCorps, and Columbia University’s C-Lab, along with some twenty artists ranging from Alighiero Boetti to Wolfgang Tillmans. In lieu of a catalogue, the Barcelona-based curatorial initiative Latitudes will produce a free weekly newspaper on-site.

— Tom Vanderbilt