EventsThe New Social Environment#1224

Martha Rosler: Truth is/is not

Featuring Rosler and Alexander Alberro

Thursday, May 8, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Martha Rosler joins scholar Alexander Alberro for a conversation.

Martha Rosler

A photo of Martha Rosler on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Martha Rosler’s practice focuses on issues of the public sphere, addressing cultural and political concerns both domestic and foreign—often through the feminist lens of their impact on the lives of women. Rosler has worked in a variety of media—including video, photography, text, sculpture, performance, and writing—always expanding upon her practice in an ongoing endeavor to incite questions of perception and truth as they relate to an ever-changing sociopolitical landscape. Recurring themes in Rosler’s practice include urbanism, spaces of transit, war and national security, and patriarchal expectations of women. Her work invites consideration and critique of the systems governing everyday life, including those that often go unnoticed. 

Alexander Alberro

A photo of Alexander Alberro on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor in the Department of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, has written widely on modern and contemporary art and theory. He is the author, most recently, of Interstices: At Contemporary Art's Boundaries (University of Chicago). Previous single-author volumes include Abstraction in Reverse (University of Chicago) and Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (MIT). He has also edited many books, including Working Conditions (MIT Press), Institutional Critique (MIT), Art After Conceptual Art (MIT), Museum Highlights (MIT), Recording Conceptual Art (University of California), Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT), and others.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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