There are signs that art critique is trying to reconnect with the critique of reality. Not only does it put the current art production into a broader historical context, it relates its main features and trends to concrete political decisions and historical events. This new sense for historicity...

Germano Celant has referred to the desire for the unlimited fabrication and widespread distribution of art objects as a “small utopia,” positing it as “a dream that punctuated the twentieth century across myriad historical and aesthetic contexts and moments.” But as much as reproduction offered a...