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How Do I Write a Statement About My Exhibition That Isn t a Total Cliche? Art Professionals Offer Real, Actionable Advice

We asked experts their advice on writing a compelling companion text for a show, and they gave us some helpful tips.

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Memes Are Dominating Attention Spans and Clicks Like Never Before So Why Is Serious Socially-Engaged Art Also Thriving?

Read an excerpt from the new book More Art in the Public Eye. December 24, 2020 Staged between the cubicle-like glass partitions of Brookfield Place’s atrium, in downtown Manhattan, Ernesto Pujol’s performance 9-5 (2015) paid homage to city office workers; writing silently for 8 hours a day, performers’ meditative gesture evoked the repetitiousness of all labor and created a literature of pedestrian life in the city. © Nisa Ojalvo 2015. A mohawk-topped black man defiantly marches forward across a public plaza as a weaponized water cannon blasts him back, creating a visceral spectacle recalling civil rights confrontations in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, but the year is really 2014, and the place is New York City. A series of free workshops teaches eager participants the art and history of protest songs, all the while repurposing such musical dissent to accommodate issues of contemporary resistance. A mysterious huddle of white-clad scriveners silently documents the routin

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