Sarah Cowan
is a writer based in New York. Her writing on art, film, and books has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker Culture Desk, New York Review of Books Daily, the Paris Review, and MIT Department of Architecture’s Thresholds 47: Repeat.
A manifesto is a desperate thing. That’s what Mierle Laderman Ukeles said of her “Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!,” which she wrote in a single sitting, under the duress of motherhood.
Art is a stubborn survivalist, having been buried alive many times over by theorists prone to writing autopsy reports.
