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Art Writing in Crisis
Contributions by Taylor Renee Aldridge
& Jessica Lynne, Kalia Brooks Nelson,
Maddee Clark, Justin Clemens, Ben
Eltham, Fayen d’Evie & Lizzie Boon,
Dan Fox, Maria Fusco, Sarah Gory,
Boris Groys, Paul James & Brad Haylock,
Flavin Judd, Sara Kaaman, Jessica Gysel &
Katja Mater, Bella Li & Justin Clemens,
Freek Lomme, Rachel Marsden, Nikos
Papastergiadis & Hou Hanru, Megan Patty,
Barry Schwabsky, Anna-Sophie Springer &
Caleb Waldorf, and Astrid Vorstermans
Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and challenges in equal measure.
This volume presents contributions from a broad range of authors who address the social and political dimensions of art and art writing in the contemporary context, and the ways in which new writing and publishing practices promote critical engagement among readerships as never before.
“Is there art without writing? Can writing be art? Is art writing a distinct discursive genre? How is it different from the writing of art history and criticism? Why do artists write? Does art writing have a different valence now than it did before Black Lives Matter, before the pandemic? How are the models, mediums, and meanings of art writing in the digital age different than they were in Vasari’s time? This book is not an answer but a provocation — a challenging guide to the state of the art of art writing in a continuous moment of crisis.”
— Roger Conover,
editor of the MIT Press Writing Art series
“This book is a timely compilation of texts that expose the conditions of art writing and publishing, and propose collectivity, diversity, and solidarity. In a time of global crisis, art writing repositions itself as an urgent orator for the major and minor issues.”
— Eleanor Vonne Brown,
independent publisher
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