WHO RUNS THE ART WORLD: MONEY, POWER AND ETHICS
IN THIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, editors Brad Buckley and John Conomos have assembled an impressive set of authors, including Amelia Jones, John Welchman, Bruce Barber and Gregory Sholette.
The front cover features a performance protest by Liberate Tate against British Petroleum’s sponsorship of the Tate Britain, ‘Human Cost’, in which a female figure in a foetal position lays in a simulated pool of oil in the interior of the gallery. This provocative image sets the agenda for the themes inside and, in this respect, may be considered a parallel tome to Naomi Klein’s (2014). Collectively, the response to the question, “who runs the artworld?” takes a decidedly activist bent.
