This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (Essay)
Like the previous four Brucennials (2008/09/10/12) participants could look forward to 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...Still, something of the exhibition’s realisation, and by extension into my art community today, proved that this was more than an attempt to take advantage of the haemorrhage of recent arts graduates. 660 artists would now constitute barely a fraction of my social network.