Much has been written about artists, curators, and art historians. Oskar Bätschmann’s The Art Public: A Short History is dedicated to the spectators on the other side.
THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION, which took place at Kerri Scharlin’s “salon” in New York on November 5, 2023, is published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the series of six articles that Michelle Kuo, then chief editor of Artforum, commissioned from Thierry de Duve and published in 2013–14. They are the basis for “Don’t Shoot the Messenger,” the main section of de Duve’s new book, Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General (Reaktion Books, 2023).
The idea of the documentary series Museums told by their guardian angels is a priori rich in promise: giving a voice to those who we often see sitting, taciturn, News