2023/04/01

Claire Bishop Surveys the State of Research-Based Art for “Artforum”

“There are many reasons to be skeptical of the PhD-in-fine-art boom. One is that it exacerbates hierarchies of economic privilege already endemic to art education. Another is that art, under the pressure of academicization, becomes tame, systematic, and professional.”
Artforum Contributing Editor Claire Bishop, (warily) setting up a survey of the types of knowledge production that occur in research-based art
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