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Gregory Sholette

Gregory Sholette is an artist, activist and author based in New York. He co-founded two artists’ collectives: Political Art Documentation and Distribution (1980-88) and REPOhistory (1989-2000). He is co-editor of The Interventionists: User’s Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (2004) and Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 (2007).

Books by Gregory Sholette

Dark Matter

Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise

Gregory Sholette

Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised artists, the ‘dark matter’ of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in opposition to it. Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate thrive in the non-commercial sector… (more information)