A.R.T. announces Rirkrit Tiravanija as its 2023 Artist Honoree!
A.R.T. is celebrating Tiravanija by distributing 25,000 free art books to 650 public libraries, schools, and prisons in his name.

A.R.T. is celebrating Tiravanija by distributing 25,000 free art books to 650 public libraries, schools, and prisons in his name.
The A.R.T. Library Program has distributed 565,733 free art books to a growing network of 8,902 public schools, libraries, prisons, and reading centers nationwide.
Luis Camnitzer has insistently investigated art-making as a strategy of pedagogy while interrogating political relations such as those between periphery and center.
"How to perform a truth about traumatic and contested events such as those that go under the name of Lebanese Civil Wars? How to reconstruct a truth which has broken down into many fragmentary and contradictory splinters of archival evidence? ... Through performance and storytelling, Raad reveals how truth is neither definitive nor incontestable. He urges us to rethink what we understand as “the truth” and to reclaim the many other truths we might have neglected in its place."
"Literacy from the vantage of art prioritizes writing over reading, and artistic production as a process of creating forms over the appreciation of artworks. If we are good at fostering literacy from this point of view, we will prompt readers to shift from being consumers to authors. Books, like works of art, should be meeting places where power is not displayed but redistributed."
Literacy is a tool for the redistribution of power. Art books can sharpen this tool, but for them to truly short-circuit hierarchies of knowledge, they must first be available in public spaces of reading and learning.