Editorial
This Will Have Been: Donald Moffett on Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
Artist Donald Moffett discusses what characterizes the 1980s in this heartfelt video made for the exhibition This Will Have Been.
For many artists, public spaces such as the street became arenas in which to facilitate encounters with art outside of the rarified space of the museum, and in this section we see artworks that use posters, graffiti, and everyday language to broadcast a social message as widely as possible. This interest in the public sphere was complicated by many artists’ observation that, increasingly, television was replacing the street or the public square as a primary site of democratic debate.
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