Have we witnessed the return of critique in the U.S. art world? Taking the decentralization of art institutions as a tactic of critique, this paper identifies waves of critique in the contemporary art world, with particular attention to New York City in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and the 2010s. Though certain critical aims and strategies have persisted, this period spans an impassable divide: the end of affordable space – for artist studios, galleries, community art centers – in the urban cores of U.S. cities. By attending to changes in the ways artists have withdrawn from, attacked, or engaged with institutional spaces, this article traces the changing definitions of critique and criticality as a function of access to space.

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去中心化！纽约艺术界的艺术，力量与空间

我们是否目睹了批评在美国艺术界的回归？本文以艺术机构的权力下放作为一种批判策略，指出了当代艺术界的批判浪潮，尤其关注1960年代末至1970年代初以及2010年代的纽约市。尽管某些关键的目标和策略仍然存在，但这一时期跨越了一个无法逾越的鸿沟：可负担空间的终结–在美国城市的中心，为艺术家工作室，画廊，社区艺术中心。通过关注艺术家退出，攻击或参与制度空间的方式的变化，本文追溯了批评和批判性的变化定义，即对进入空间的作用。