BAD NEW DAYS

Bad New Days looks back at the last twenty-five years of artistic practice in Western Europe and North America, positioning it in re lation to a general condition of emergency that neoliberalism and the war of terror have brought with them. Foster argues that art h as actually anticipated this condition, at times miming the collapse of the social contract, at other times resisting it, and at sti ll other times exacerbating it critically. Against the assumption that art no longer heeds any model, he also offers several paradig ms of pr...[Read more]