bron: This time its personal: Politics as an expansion of the self
This time its personal: Politics as an expansion of the self
Back in 1971, a museum could still forbid using art as “active engagement
toward social and political ends.” In that year Hans Haacke was prevented
by the director of the Guggenheim from revealing how a single man, Harry
Shapolsky, had jacked up the rents of impoverished New York neighbourhoods.
How different that is from today, when exhibiting social injustice
has become the main current in contemporary art.
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