Withering Away News Today

Artforum’s May issue, out today, considers the legacy of video art, a medium whose novelty once electrified artists and theorists. This week, the editors revisit Hollis Frampton’s “The Withering Away of the State of Art,” from the December 1974 issue. Originally presented at “Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (the institution is currently hosting the major survey “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”)...

At First We Hoped When the “sanitarian revolution” of global health dictatorship began in early 2020, we in Japan imagined that being here would someh...

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, May 25, 2021. On this date in 1787, 55 delegates met in Philadelphia to draft a Constitution to replace the unwieldy Articles of Confederation. Did those delegates, all of whom were white and male, do their best? That’s a fraught question. It’s a matter of record that they were literally revolutionaries who had risked their lives, fortunes, and their family’s future for the idea of self-determination. Even so, they also seem obtuse today: A new country devote...