FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast series by ART COLOGNE in collaboration with the journal TEXTE ZUR KUNST.
Presented by Micaela Dixon, FAIR ENOUGH brings together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to reflect on how art and its institutions are responding to the urgencies of our present moment. This season marks the 35th anniversary of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Here, the journal's motto for the year is taken up, there is no art without criticism. Each episode returns to a past issue of the journal to revisit the debates it sparked and to consider how those questions continue to shape the cultural and political landscape today.
Tara Heffernan: The Return of the Badaud
Art critic Tara Heffernan discusses the reappearance of the 19th-century badaud — the idle onlooker, the fascinated observer of modern life — in today’s art world.
In conversation with Micaela Dixon, Heffernan reflects on the emergence of new forms of art journalism and the shifting landscape of criticism in what she defines as a time of “no posterity.” Together, they explore the state of the avant-garde, the tensions between attention and distraction, and how social reportage and immediacy are reshaping the position of the critic.
A thoughtful dialogue on the future of art writing — and on what it means to look, linger, and record in an age of relentless now.
FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast by ART COLOGNE in collaboration with TEXTE ZUR KUNST, bringing together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to examine how art responds to the urgencies of our time.
Season 1 marks TEXTE ZUR KUNST’s 35th anniversary with the theme: There Is No Art Without Criticism.
