The Insidious Institutions
"Art Under Quiet Siege" at FAIR, a reading in Manchester, and an ASBC announcement.
My essay “Art Under Quiet Siege,” a critique of postliberal progressive autocracy as delivered by the museums, grant programs, and foundations, has been published at the Substack of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, to which you should subscribe. Click this:
In other news, I’ll be doing an event for Aphorisms for Artists at the Bookery in Manchester, New Hampshire Friday evening (tomorrow, September 20) as part of Manchester Arts Week. Free general admission tickets are available here. The Hippo has written a piece about the book and the upcoming event, but it’s paywalled and even I haven’t seen it. If you spy a copy on the street, pick one up and let me know if I’m in it.
Lastly, due to numerous competing commitments, I’m pushing off the Asynchronous Studio Book Club reading of the first half of Ben Shahn’s The Shape of Content until next Friday, the 27th. The ASBC schedule will be updated shortly. I have the next ten books picked out, so get ready for some intellectually and psychically vigorous months ahead.
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Our next title in the Asynchronous Studio Book Club is The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn. For more information, see the ASBC homepage.
“Franklin Einspruch: Tangibilia” is an online exhibition representing the physical one in New York in June 2024.
Dissident Muse’s first publication, Backseat Driver by James Croak, is available now at Amazon.
Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art by Walter Darby Bannard is out now at Allworth Press. More information is available at the site for the book. If you own it already, thank you; please consider reviewing the book at Amazon, B&N, or Goodreads.
Congrats on getting your essay into FAIR-- and I love your self-portrait!
Well, if it's possible to be too Jewish for the Jewish Museum, it should change its name to the Fashionably Jewish Museum--to avoid guilt by association, of course. Lord have mercy.