“One idea Nicole and I talked about is dispelling the idea of the ‘hero-industrial complex.’ So, much of what we’re interested in is looking not at individual artists but at the people who inspire and inform them or the folks who don’t necessarily get acknowledged for thinking that can (or, if it’s not, should) inform artmaking today.”

Special thanks to Shiv Kotecha, Manager of Grants and Services at The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, for this new conversation on The Ostracon, the arts-writing site I cofounded with Nicole Caruth thanks to a Creative Capital/Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Read The Ostracon.