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| Growing up as a working class white kid in the Philly suburbs and a Catholic, the world of Left organizing and Jewish history didn't come alive for me until I moved to NYC in the late 1970s. While attending The Cooper Union, I rented a room from Soph ...more | |
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“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste” from the periphery to the center of the art world, small audiences, inadequate funding, and lack of long-term thinking remain obstacles to true florescence. He writes that contemporary art is simultaneously capital’s “avant garde and its social realism.”
― Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
― Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is driven underground once more. Too many solutions involve continuing sacrifice by artists bucking the system, who are rarely rewarded for their hard work.”
― Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
― Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism