Primary Information's 2008 republication of the Art Worker's Coalition's 1969 "Open Hearing" and "Documents 1." "Open Hearing" is the report from the Art Workers Coalition hearing on April 10, 1969 printed in order to bring each artists' opinion on museum reform to the attention of all art workers and all art institutions in New York City and elsewhere.
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Reprint of significant articles and manifestos and a timeline of the actions of the Art Worker's Coalition. Published by Primary Information on the occasion of the exhibition 'That was Then... This is Now' at PS1/MOMA, June 22 - September 22, 2008.
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"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre.
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A collection of actions by the Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Art Action Group (Jon Hendricks, Jean Toche, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna). Includes: "A Call for the Immediate Resignation of All the Rockefellers from the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art," signed by A.
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