Exhibit: Just Because You’re Paranoid…
The Art Newspaper: ‘History repeats. Right? If any proof were needed, the Met Breuer has it in abundant supply. Though conceived nearly a decade ago by Douglas Eklund, a photography curator for the Metropolitan Museum, Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy has arrived in New York during the tenure of the most conspiracy-crazed president yet to occupy the Oval Office. Is that a coincidence? Or have I internalized the contents of this cautionary show? As Ian Alteveer, the exhibition’s co-curator, remarked at the exhibition’s packed opening that conspiracy theories have been a substream of American political life since the assassination of John. F. Kennedy in 1963. What Everything’s Connected makes clear is how much contemporary artists have contributed to them.’
