Underground press reframed museum protest as revolutionary politics

Evidence

Writing about the event several weeks later in the Freep, Swenson characterized it as a “massive police demonstration,” suggesting that the New York art world was perched upon the “time bomb of social revolution,” and subsequently published a manifesto in the Freep headlined WHY HAVE NONE OF MY FELLOW ARTISTS SPOKEN A WORD IN BEHALF OF THE REVOLUTION? — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1213

Categorization

• QUESTION: The trajectory from art-world demonstration coverage to a manifesto demanding artist solidarity with revolution — worth chasing the exact mechanism of how the Freep (underground press) positioned itself as the revolutionary voice of the art world.