The tenth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read three texts about maintenance and art. We look at ‘What It's Like to Live With Art That Doesn't Love You Back’, a 2017 magazine article by M.H Miller, Ben Lerner’s 2016 piece for the New Yorker about the Whitney museum’s conservation team, ‘The Custodians’, and Helena Reckitt’s, article about feminist art and maintenance ‘Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics’ from 2013.
Download PDFs of the texts below
Miller, M. H. ‘What It’s Like to Live With Art That Doesn’t Love You Back’. The New York Times, 22 September 2017, sec. T Magazine. Download PDF.
Lerner, Ben. ‘The Custodians’. The New Yorker, 3 January 2016. Download PDF.
Reckitt, Helena. ‘Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics’. In Politics in a Glass: Case Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions, edited by Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry, 7:131–56. Value: Art: Politics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Download PDF.