
ART PAPERS 36.03 - May/June 2012
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The political season is decidedly upson us. No real news there...but something is different this time, and the arts have much to do with it. How will we deploy the battery of skills that we have developed as cultural producers to strategically challenge the apparatus of power? --Sylvie Fortin, excerpt, Letter from the Editor
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editor’s Desk
Cultural Producers at the Wild Heart of Occupy Wall Street
Nato Thompson
Artists have shaped the Occupy Movement in the US. Nato Thompson challenges cultural producers of grasp the potentials and responsibilities of their, vastly expanded theater of action.
Museal Ethics and the Art of Public Relations:
The Bloomberg Machine + MCNY
Marisa Jahn
Looking into three recent exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, Marisa Jahn ponders the museum’s relationship to Mayor Bloomberg’s agenda.
Claire Culture: Milford Thomas and the Public Work of Filmmaking
Joey Orr
Joey Orr demonstrates that Milford THomas’ unusual approach to fundraising and production is a form of public practice that truly shapes the filmmaker’s cinematic work.
Noteworthy: the editor’s pick of notable shows
Spaces, D. Eric Bookhardt
Innovate or Die, Ruth Erickson
Lawrence Abu Hamdann, Stephen Lee
Muntadas, Cathy Byrd
Future Anterior: an index to contemporary art’s imminent history
Tommy Taylor, Dorothy M. Joiner
Alejandro Aguilera, Lilly Lampe
Ray Johnson, Lucas Carpenter
Matt Mycoff, Hesse McGraw
J.J. McCraken, Danielle O’Steen
Okay Mountain, Matt Christy
Feast, Wendy Koenig
Dasha Shishkin, Todd Meyer
Christi Birchfield, Douglas Max Utter
Reverend Howard Finster, Curt Riegelnegg
Marilyn Murphy + Bob Trotman, Dorothy M. Joiner
Jeremy Deller, David Trigg
With Schott to the Pole, Sophie Arkette
Valerie Blass, Anja Bock
Thorton Dial, D. Eric Bookhardt
Ryan McNamara, Harry J Weil
Mounir Fatmi, Berin Golonu
Happenings: New York, 1958-1963, Harry J Weil
NONILLION, Alex Jovanovich
Ron Johnson + Ray Kass, Dinah Ryan
Marcel Dzama, Daniel McGrath
Chris Kline, Stephen Horne
Julia Feyrer, Amy Fung
Carrie Moyer, Sarah Parrish