Art to Come

“Global in scale, yet granular in their attention to specifics, these essays map the defining conditions of art and architecture today, laying out the forthright line of inquiry that has made Terry Smith an indispensable guide to understanding the vexing contradictions of twenty-first-century artworlds and their possible futures.” — Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

“Art to Come offers a splendid synthesis of Terry Smith’s reflection on contemporaneity. Smith is one of the main thinkers of that notion, without which there is no real understanding of contemporary art. The book shows the richness of contemporaneity as an ongoing hypothesis that keeps art alive, disclosing the main forces shaping twentieth- and twenty-first-century art as well as those probed, questioned, and sometimes reinvented in it. Those forces include not only globalization, neoliberalism, climate change, transculturality, indigeneity, and colonialism but also decolonization, inequality, and coeval connectivity.” — Christine Ross, McGill University