“Friendship: Writing Art Histories in Relation”: ARTMargins Workshop at UC Berkeley
“Friendship: Writing Art Histories in Relation”: ARTMargins Workshop at UC Berkeley, November 7, 2025
This ARTMargins Workshop focuses on the notion and practice of “friendship” and related questions about elective affinity and difference in contexts of anti-colonial struggle, decolonization, and ambivalent participation in global circulation. To invoke “friends” in a global art history can be to emphasize the intersubjective dependencies of artists, to trace art worlds of material and immaterial support. It may also identify peer-to-peer connections and practices of mutual aid, as in Cold War histories of friendship societies and artist exchanges between nations—proto-political relations operating outside official state … Read more
