Exposure and Disclosure of Artworks

Raphael Sassower

doi:10.18290/rkult21121-11

Raphael Sassower University of Colorado, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3501-6013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rkult21121-11

Keywords: philanthropy, capitalist appropriation, aesthetic racism, public art, funding

Abstract

The artworld’s ongoing imbrication in and complicity with the ever-growing web of hypercapitalism is evident in the United States. Any pretense to the contrary exposes hypocritical conduct on the fronts of artistic production, distribution, and consumption. Only public engagement with and support of the art community writ large can offer potential protection against the unwarranted and unwanted financial and political intrusion.

References

Azoulay, Ariella Aisha. 2019. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. London and New York: Verso.

Bogart, Michele. 1995. Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Courthouse news.com March 20, 2020. Accessed December 11, 2020. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/harvard-photos.pdf.

Davis, Ben, and Julia Halperin. 2019. “Warren Kanders Resigns from the Whitney’s Museum’s Board, Following Months of Protest and a Renewed Artists Boycott.” artnet.news, July 25, 2019. Accessed August 11, 2020. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kanders-resigns-1609330.

Forest, Benjamin, and Juliet Johnson. 2018. “Confederate monuments and the problem of forgetting.” Cultural Geographies. Accessed September 11, 2020. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474474018796653.

Mitchell, Mary Niall. 2020. “We always knew it was possible: The long fight against symbols of white supremacy in New Orleans.” City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action 24, issues 3-4. Accessed August 11, 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784580.

Owley, Jessica, and Jess Phelps. 2018. “Understanding the Complicated Landscape of Civil War Monuments.” Indiana Law Journal 93, issue 5. Accessed September 11, 2020. https:// www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11322&context=ilj.

Schwartz, Rafi. 2020. “A new art project will project a hologram of George Floyd over Confederate monuments,” Mic. (July 29, 2020). Accessed September 11, 2020. https://www.mic.com/p/a-new-art-project-will-project-a-hologram-of-george-floyd-over-confederate-monuments-30233827.