Blackflash 41.3

"Editorial Note: Aftertaste

This issue emerged from many overlapping conversations that began when I joined BlackFlash as Guest Editor this past August. The articles and projects in this issue stem from commissioned responses to the theme of “taste,” framed in part by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s text Distinction, which examines the relationship between taste and class. Taste isn’t often accounted for in art writing, yet the question of how it operates in the arts is one I return to. As critics, artists, and curators, we professionally leverage taste; art institutions claim (diminishing) authority over it, and in a sector where clout ostensibly translates to capital, taste is not something we can afford to leave unexamined..."

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