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Plus, Damien Hirst puts his art on ice in Switzerland and technology is revolutionizing art authentication. January 8, 2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump sit inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as the protest inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, January 8. NEED-TO-READ Artists React to the Riots in DC – Artists including Dread Scott, G...

Timothy Young has sent directions for a participatory garden project entitled Solitary Garden conceived by the artist Jackie Sumell © Steve Kurtz Barring Freedom, a bi-coastal initiative organised by two American universities, aims to tackle the criminal justice system—a subject that is gathering momentum in the art world—with an exhibition, a participatory art project, an educational website and virtual events featuring political and social justice activists. The idea for an arts-led project “began around four years ago after the first Black Lives Matter uprising i...

Members of law enforcement rest beneath Robert Walter Weir's painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims (around 1837) in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the minutes and hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC yesterday, leading art world figures took to social media to express their anger and dismay at scenes including videos showing police opening barricades to rioters and posing for selfies with perpetrators. Some commentators stressed the contrast between the law enforcement reactio...

Welcome to Fifth Estate’s Anarchist Review of Books, edited by a collective based in Austin, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Oakland and Seattle. ARB brings you intelligent, subversive, non–dogmatic writing with an anti-authoritarian perspective. We put this issue out at a time of grave concern in American publishing. A deadening combination of corporate consolidation and academic professionalization of writing has produced decades of embarrassing, dull work and uninspired critique that stands as a record of cowardice and complicity in literature; a one-two punch that has brought wily, vibra...

Read an excerpt from the new book "More Art in the Public Eye." December 24, 2020 Staged between the cubicle-like glass partitions of Brookfield Place’s atrium, in downtown Manhattan, Ernesto Pujol’s performance 9-5 (2015) paid homage to city office workers; writing silently for 8 hours a day, performers’ meditative gesture evoked the repetitiousness of all labor and created a literature of pedestrian life in the city. © Nisa Ojalvo 2015. A mohawk-topped black man defiantly marches forward across a public plaza as a weaponized water cannon blasts him back, creating a visceral spectacl...