On Contemporary Art $50 and Under and the Whitney Museum of

and the Whitney Museum of American Art

irrespective of chronology

reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory

Diedrich Diederichsen

When she was almost seventy years old

On Contemporary Art $50 and Under and the Whitney Museum ofTranslated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist Csar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Airas dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under questionfrom reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. In the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge between writing and art that he set out