Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity and the coeditor of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, both published by The MIT Press.Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (2004), and coeditor (with Alexander Alberro) of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (2000), both published by the MIT Press.Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity and the coeditor of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, both published by The MIT Press.Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (2004), and coeditor (with Alexander Alberro) of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (2000), both published by the MIT Press.Hans Haacke is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York. From 1967 to 2002, he taught at The Cooper Union.Michael Asher was a conceptual artist often associated with site specificity and institutional critique. For many years he taught the famous and influential “Post Studio” class at California Institute of the Arts.Hans Haacke is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York. From 1967 to 2002, he taught at The Cooper Union.Hans Haacke is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York. From 1967 to 2002, he taught at The Cooper Union.Martha Rosler lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has taught and lectured on photography since the mid-1970s. Her work was the subject of a major retrospective, "Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World," in 2000. She is the author of 14 books and numerous essays.Hans Haacke is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York. From 1967 to 2002, he taught at The Cooper Union.Andrea Fraser is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, published by the MIT Press.Andrea Fraser is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, published by the MIT Press.Hans Haacke is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York. From 1967 to 2002, he taught at The Cooper Union.Michael Asher was a conceptual artist often associated with site specificity and institutional critique. For many years he taught the famous and influential “Post Studio” class at California Institute of the Arts.Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and an editor of October magazine. He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT Press) and other books.Isabelle Graw (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin) is Professor of Art Theory and Art History at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. In 1990 Graw and Stefan Germer founded the quarterly magazine Texte zur Kunst. In 2003, Graw and Daniel Birnbaum founded the Institut für Kunstkritik at the Städelschule.Andrea Fraser is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, published by the MIT Press.Gregg Bordowitz is an artist, writer, and Director of the Low Residency MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association, he is the author of The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings (1986–2003) (MIT Press) and General Idea: Imagevirus (Afterall Books/MIT Press).

"This is a long overdue anthology that brings together a judicious selection of canonical artists' writings, while expanding this established frame to consider episodes in South America and Eastern Europe. Alberro and Stimson cover a variety of critical modalities, including the exhibition as a frame, the economic circulation of art, and approaches to audience. The final section controversially inscribes recent tactical media projects into this history as the contemporary iteration of Institutional Critique. This will be essential reading for, and generative of further criticism by, artists, curators, and art historians invested in the legacy of this practice." -- Claire Bishop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York "This volume performs the much needed task of mapping the multiple trajectories of artists committed to institutional critique; from their excoriation of the museum to their skepticism about the category of art, from the feminist critiques of mastery and genius to the refutation of the hegemony of whiteness by artists of color. For over four decades these artists and critics have rejoiced in anti-authoritarian strategies, and, with a profound sense of love and possibility, have bravely suggested that the idea of art, far from being timeless, demands and deserves to be renewed and reimagined over time and space."--Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum -- Helen Molesworth "This volume performs the much-needed task of mapping the multiple trajectories of artists committed to institutional critique-from their excoriation of the museum to their skepticism about the category of art; from the feminist critiques of mastery and genius to the refutation of the hegemony of whiteness by artists of color. For over four decades these artists and critics have rejoiced in anti-authoritarian strategies, and, with a profound sense of love and possibility, have bravely suggested that the idea of art, far from being timeless, demands and deserves to be renewed and reimagined over time and space." -- Helen Molesworth , Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum

An anthology of writings and projects by artists who developed and extended the genre of institutional critique.