Contemporary Art’s Twin Follies

Gripped by a crisis of purpose, institutions that once formed culture’s vanguard are redecorating the past in two genres of nostalgia. Is there a way out?

Futures

The future is not yet decided, though that doesn’t stop people from making money on it, speculatively. As one of the centres of nance capital in the world today, and one of the biggest reasons there is such a humungous divide between those who have a future and those who are stuck in the present, we may well wonder what New York will look like in a decade.