Season 8

Nizan Shaked is our guest this month! Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and most recently the author of Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury, 2022). She speaks to Lauren Wetmore about the resources offered by criticality, writing for  ”liberals that I want to become more radical,” and researching her forthcoming book Art Against the System, for which she recently won a Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Shaked offers artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s book The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014) to consider the devastation perpetrated by imperial industry, its connection to art systems, and how artists provide models for how to deal with authoritarianism.

This episode is supported by Centre PHI and Night Gallery

Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Chris Andrews.

 

About the Guest

About the Guest, and more

  • Nizan Shaked is professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University Long Beach. She is the author of The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) and Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Her writing has also appeared in the Oxford Art Journal and in the edited collections Routledge Companion to African American Art History (2019) and Adrian Piper: A Reader (MoMA, 2018).

More by the Guest

This is Nizan Shaked's first piece for Momus.

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