NM Reads: Excerpts from "What Is Contemporary Art For Today?" (Perić, 2025)

Gavin Brown, Caroline Busta, Joshua Citarella, Ben Davis, Jason
Farago, Tobias Spichtig and Lloyd Wise read their contributions to
“What Is Contemporary Art For Today?" (Perić Collection, 2025) This
is a preview — for the full episode (released 08/13/2025),
including a conversation with the book's editors, Matt Moravec,
Eleonore Hugendubel, and Dean Kissick, subscribe:
patreon.com/newmodels newmodels.substack.com From January 2023 to
January 2024, the Perić Collection funded a series of informal,
highly attended talks about the state of Contemporary Art. Hosted
by Dean Kissick and coordinated & commissioned by Eleonore
Hugendubel and Matt Moravec, the monthly event, known as the
Seaport Talks, took place in Downtown Manhattan. As a kind of coda
to this series, Matt, Eleonore, and Dean created a correlating
reader (likewise supported by Perić) featuring texts by 25
contributors who have spent some significant part of their life in
the art world. Each writer was asked to briefly respond to the
book’s titular question: “What is contemporary art for Today? And
what should it be for, if anything?” For this special episode, we
bring you a selection of the answers. For more:
https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/product/what-contemporary-art-today