Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age (In-Person Event)

1133 Broadway,New York NY 10010

26 January, 2022

Description

Author Farah Nayeri will be in conversation with Linda Yablonsky about the most difficult questions plaguing the art world today. Author Farah Nayeri will be in conversation with fellow arts journalist Linda Yablonsky about her book Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age, which grapples with the most difficult questions of power, money, and identity facing the art world today. Please preorder the book here. ABOUT THE BOOK For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon--kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or politically deviant in art. Today, censorship can also happen from the bottom-up, thanks to calls to action from organizers and social media campaigns. Artists and artworks are routinely taken to task for their insensitivity. In this new world order, artists, critics, philanthropists, galleries and museums alike are recalibrating their efforts to increase the visibility of marginalized voices and respond to the people’s demands for better ethics in art. But what should we, the people, do with this newfound power? With exclusive interviews with Nan Goldin, Sam Durant, Faith Ringgold, and others, Nayeri tackles wide-ranging issues including sex, religion, gender, ethics, animal rights, and race. By asking and answering questions such as: Who gets to make art and who owns it? How do we correct the inequities of the past? What does authenticity, exploitation, and appropriation mean in art?, Takedown provides the necessary tools to navigate the art world. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Farah Nayeri is an arts and culture writer for the New York Times and host of the podcast Cultureblast. Originally from Iran, she began her journalism career as a reporter for Time magazine in Paris, where she then joined Bloomberg. She went on to become Bloomberg's Rome bureau chief and its European economics correspondent, before being assigned to Baghdad in 2003 to cover the US-led invasion of Iraq. Farah has also written for The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. She is a regular moderator at New York Times conferences, and has spoken at Sciences Po in Paris and the Royal Academy of Arts. She is a classical pianist and a member of the UK Critics' Circle. Linda Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, as well as an art critic and journalist who has been covering the international art world for more than 25 years. RIZZOLI IN-PERSON EVENT COVID POLICIES In-person events will be presented to a fully vaccinated audience at full capacity. All attendees are required to wear masks. All patrons over the age of sixteen will be required to show proof* of having completed the COVID-19 vaccination series at least 14 days prior to the date of the event. *Proof of vaccination will be defined as either an original vaccination card or an Excelsior Pass. Registration will be required.