Contemporary

The art system

While browsing Brooklyn‘s art blog recently, I noticed that there were numerous articles on offer about the mechanisms of our impending doom–environmental and American–none of which I particularly wanted to read. The cultural pessimism of the moment was hard to ignore. In the art world, too, there is a sense of foreboding. The often used metaphor of an art world…

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Reviews

Exponential Futures

In preparing to write this review, I discovered a reservoir of information about each of the works in the exhibition, which is only indirectly accessible but nonetheless integral to the functioning of the show. For example, I learned of Althea Thauberger’s work with young men in Berlin who were allowed to participate in her film as a substitute for the…

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