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This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democratic dissemination of information as it reinforced mass psychology and mores. With the participation ...

In the wake of the Afrofuturism festival of arts and music at New York’s Carnegie Hall, DeForrest Brown, Jr examines the liberating potential of the movement’s legacy

This week, the editors recall scholar Branden W. Joseph’s essay “Dark Energy: The Art of Marco Fusinato” from February 2011. Recently for artforum.com, Adam Jasper wrote about Fusinato’s two-hundred-day performance at the Australian pavilion as part of the 2022 Venice Biennale.Joseph’s expansive essay introduced Artforum’s readers to Australian artist and noise musician Marco Fusinato, whose work engages and tests the bounds of radical political and aesthetic acts inside of capitalism. “Though allegorizing historical distance, commodification, even ‘failure,’” writes Joseph...

We rounded up a list of eight shows you won't want to miss while you're cruising around New York during Frieze week.

In the wake of the Afrofuturism festival of arts and music at New York’s Carnegie Hall, DeForrest Brown, Jr examines the liberating potential of the movement’s legacy