Art dealer David Zwirner talks to Robin Pogrebin, culture reporter at The New York Times. The conversation took place in Berlin on 27 April 2018, as part of The New York Times Art Leaders Network conference. See here for more information
The confrontational artist has let visitors shoot him with thousands of paintballs, surgically attached a camera to his head for a year, and produced a videogame called Virtual Jihadi
It is debatable as to whether or not contemporary art has any major impact on politics at all. But recent antiauthoritarian protests in Poland suggest otherwise