THE EVERYDAY

Numerous international exhibitions and biennials have borne witness to the range of contemporary art engaged with the everyday and i ts antecedents in the work of Surrealists, Situationists, the Fluxus group, and conceptual and feminist artists of the 1960s and 197 0s. This art shows a recognition of ordinary dignity or the accidentally miraculous, an engagement with a new kind of anthropology, an immersion in the pleasures of popular culture, or a meditation on what happens when nothing happens.