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SIXTY YEARS AGO, in Artforum’s very first issue, our founding editor, Philip Leider, threw down the gauntlet for art’s autonomy. “Art and artists will flourish when an admiring public buys paintings because they love them; if the myth that buying art is a good investment (in the Wall Street sense) is perpetuated, the result can only be disaster for both.” I took his words from a blistering review of two 1961 publications on art and money as an early expression of the magazine’s ethos, which made speculation a constitutive exclusion. The keyword for me here was not myth or disaster but love.I
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A schematic diagram of temporary walls demarcates the six axes of “CLOSER,” a group show curated by the Kunstverein’s new director, Kathrin Bentele. Scaled to fit a 16:9 image projection, the rectangular panels are installed as a series of partial enclosures, like miniature cinemas, warranting a proximate encounter with each position. The selected works orbit the idea of intimacy across interpersonal and technological dimensions, offering correspondent takes on the conditions of communication by proxy.James Benning honors the legacies of seven American outsider artists and an imagined prehistoric
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