by Emily Colucci on December 9, 2016
What is an artist’s role in activism? A panel at e-flux on Tuesday night explored the question many in the arts community have been wondering since Trump’s election a month ago.
The panel What Now: The Artist-Writer As Activist-Critic not only considered artist writing as a form of sociopolitical and institutional critique, but it also took a more expansive look at the intersection of art and activism. And this focus struck a nerve. Even on a rainy and miserable evening, the event space at e-flux was filled to capacity with over 70 people searching for a way forward in the forthcoming Trump administration.
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by Whitney Kimball on September 19, 2015
I’ve been to enough book fairs and then subsequently packed had to move apartments enough times that I wasn’t exactly holding onto my cash for dear life this year, as I have in past New York Art Book Fairs. No more 20 pound monographs for shows I’ve never seen, no more zines of doodles that didn’t make the artist website. I wouldn’t take a business card if I didn’t have to, I decided. I’m approaching my bookshelf with more criticality this year.
I think this probably happened to the book fair, too, or fellow New York customers, because it feels like there’s less crap this year, and the crap is at least not disguised as a book. With over 370 booksellers/antiquarians/artists/galleries/indy publishers, I’m probably projecting, but I swear there are less piles of overdesigned charts on newsprint and more T-shirts with doodles. Yay. This year I saw plenty of books which, if not for my apartment, I’d very much like to see added to my local art library, my friends’ bathrooms, communal workspaces, and dream mansion of the future. With bleeding eyes, here’s that selection…
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