Archive - Our Bare Art World

Introducing, Left Art Review

Political Art After the Defeat of the Cultural Turn

Dec 19, 2023 •

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November 2023

MY SIRIUS RESIDENCY, Cobh, Ireland, Summer 2022.

(FROM MY TUMBLR ARCHIVES 2015-2022)

Nov 26, 2023 •

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October 2023

Art Works: A Conversation with Ken Grossinger

Part One of a conversation about How Organizers And Artists Are Creating A Better World Together

Oct 6, 2023 •

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September 2023

Forgotten transnational solidarity between the Americas

Today I enthusiastically welcome scholar Erina Duganne who, in keeping with previous posts on archiving activist art, looks-back to 1984 at Artists Call…

Sep 5, 2023 •

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August 2023

Scanning Our Mugshot Drama with Nick Mirzoeff

Today I welcome Nicholas Mirzoeff, a long time friend, activist, theorist, and all around good trouble maker to my Substack blog to discuss the…

Aug 28, 2023 •

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Nicholas Mirzoeff

July 2023

From Trinity Test to Bikini Atoll (and after)

Bikini Atoll: A History Lesson (1946-1978)

Jul 29, 2023 •

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May 2023

Political Art Documentation/ Distribution

1980 to 1988, and now, in 2023, as MoMA focuses on the PAD/D Archives

May 28, 2023 •

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Communal Luxury in Dark Matter Mode

May 9, 2023

April 2023

"Selfie" from Chicago: Twenty Years Ago

My 2003 faculty interview at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, offered to draw attention to what remains constant, and what has changed since…

Apr 7, 2023

February 2023

A Counter-Progressivist Turn?

Does rising pessimism about Socially Engaged Art and Political Collectivism signal the Art World's fatigue with such work, or simply its latest failure…

Feb 26, 2023 •

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Memory Art and the Phantom Archive

A recent double book launch at Printed Matter books focuses on Contemporary Art, Trauma and Activist Resistance with authors Andreas Huyssen & Gregory…

Feb 18, 2023 •

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January 2023

Vintage Haacke @ Paula Cooper / JAM @ MoMA

Two consequential exhibitions take me back to my first years in NYC

Jan 23, 2023

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