ABOVE: Audience members at the Tate Modern last week for a panel discussion on new art history book Art Since 1900. Panelists, from left to right: Hal Foster, Mark Godfrey, Benjamin H.D. Buchloch, and Briony Fer.

Artforum over the weekend blogged about a recent panel-discussion-cum-advertising-plug that took place at the Tate Modern last week featuring the authors of the new art history textbook Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. The book, by all accounts (including ours) is rattling the cheese tables of the art world with its “kaleidoscopic” approach and unapologetic partisanship.

Claire Bishop’s account of the five-hour gab-a-thon is similarly opinionated and entertainingly mean-spirited, carefully picking several instances of Rosalind Krauss’s casual arrogance and enjoying the “fireworks” introduced by several outspoken audience members. The article concludes by saying that the very fact that the book is being marketed as a “landmark” work means that “oppositional art history” is here to stay, and therefore can’t wait to see the backlash. It’s begun, obviously—the only question is how big and how bad.

Artforum Diary: “Selective Memories”
The Guardian: Lost in a Labyrinth of Theory