We expect a handful more before the opening

There’s a tacit understanding amongst those who can claim an institutional memory that conversations about the “death of art” started happening just after women (and by inclusion, others) started making it. That said, in the weeks leading up to the Last Brucennial, we were all careful not to blow the gag: ask any of the 661 artists involved and there’d be nothing unusual about that year’s effort to troll the Whitney Biennial with a massive tailgate party and something of art’s utopian longing... no curatorial strategy, no press release, no credentials, and an unprecedented amount of art historical involvement for a pop-up art show: Marina Abramovi , Barbara Kruger, and the late Sarah Charlesworth representing only a fraction of the institutional capital leveraged.

From 'This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Surviving the Last Brucennial', Spike Art Magazine. (2021)