Art in General
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
Hours: Tues – Sat 12-6pm
(212) 219-0473Founded in 1981, Art in General is a nonprofit organization that assists local and international artists to create groundbreaking and major new works that would otherwise not be realized, and engages the public with the key ideas that these artworks address. In its thirty-four years, the organization has emerged as one of New York City’s leading nonprofits devoted to supporting the creation of contemporary art, providing an environment in which artists can exhibit unconventional work and exchange ideas with their peers.
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Exhibitions
School of Pain
The exhibition School of Pain draws on the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade, the first two thinkers of economies of desire. Sade with his ironic demonstrations may be seen as a predecessor to the attitudes of twentieth century modern and conceptual art. The libidinal economy, unleashed by modern reason, turned out to easily adopt such subversions in the constant mutations of advanced capitalism. The originally subversive imagery of Sade’s mechanised, accelerating and coldly executed desire therefore turned out…
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