Tirdad Zolghadr and Ana Teixeira Pinto in conversation: REALTY at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

The art world is not what it used to be. In the last three decades, the socioeconomic space within which contemporary art circulates has changed dramatically. By opening a toxic conduit between counterculture and capital, promoting gentrification, and providing a liberal mask to illiberal regimes, contemporary art can (and does) effect political changes that run …