Jillian Steinhauer speaks with artist Chloë Bass about institutional care, intimacy and anti-empathy, what it means to be political, and more alongside her current exhibition, The Book of Everyday Instruction, at Knockdown Center.
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Sumugan Sivanesan writes on Jonas Staal’s recent Phd defense and his use of organizational forms to generate controversy, critique and alternative political imaginaries.
Museums were trapped. Artists were trapped. Nonprofits were trapped. Social entrepreneurs were trapped. This feeling was one of the major sparks for the Occupy Movement…
Contributors Inc., a collective that works with the contents lists in art and culture magazines to assess gender imbalances in art criticism, discuss the recent resignation of Knight Landesman from Artforum due to sexual misconduct and the pervasive power structures that preserve inequity in the art world.
Regardless of what form it takes, public art often possesses a rather dismal outlook for what might be contemporary art’s only refuge ‘outside’ the white box.
I am for an artist who vanishes takes Claes Oldenburg’s 1961 manifesto and recent developments in socially-engaged art to explore the collective life of art as it leaves the CV of the artist and enters a broader field.