Art is Magic is artist Jeremy Deller's attempt to tie up the key works of his career alongside the art
with documents from the Werker Archief in Amsterdam with which it aims to interrogate the normative visualization and glorification of the worker’s body and the associated oppression of non-normative bodies
The effort to put together all this material is not only an archival work but also an essay on the topic that offers different approaches to the definition and the experimentation of an archive by the viewer or its creator
Every sentence holds meaning
Melville House
Judith Butler: Who's Afraid of Gender Black Women Art is Magic is artistPenguin, 2025, softcover, 320 pages, 16. 5 x 19. 5 cm Judith Butler, the ground breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right wing movements today. Global networks have formed anti gender ideology movements dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization and even man himself. Inflamed