Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institutions, critique, and institutional critique / Alexander Alberro -- What was institutional critique? / Blake Stimson -- I. Framing : An introduction to the general theory of place (1966) / Wieslaw Borowski, Hanna Ptaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek -- Statement (1967) / Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni -- Where Art Thou, Sweet Muse? (I'm Hung Up at the Whitney) (1967) / Allan Kaprow -- What Is a museum?: A dialogue (1967) / Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson -- New commitment (1968) / Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel -- Demystifying art (1968) / Julio Le Parc -- Project for the experimental art series (1968) / Eduardo Favario -- Project for the experimental art series (1968) / Graciela Carnevale -- We must always resist the lures of complicity (1968) / Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Aldo Bortolotti, et al. -- A conversation with Freddy de Vree, 1969 (1969) / Marcel Broodthaers -- A call for the immediate resignation of all of the Rockefellers from the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (1969) / Guerrilla Art Action Group -- Statement of demands (1969) / Art Workers' Coalition -- Art Workers' Coalition open hearing presentation (1969) / Gregory Battcock -- Art Workers' Coalition open hearing statement (1969) / Jean Toche -- Communique (1969) / Guerrilla Art Action Group -- The function of the museum (1970) / Daniel Buren -- The function of the studio (1971) / Daniel Buren -- Provisional remarks (1971) / Hans Haacke -- Project: inside/outside the museum (1971) / Lea Lublin -- A conversation with Freddy de Vree, 1971 (1971) / Marcel Broodthaers -- Musèe d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles (1972) / Marcel Broodthaers -- Cultural confinement (1972) / Robert Smithson -- Manifesto for maintenance art 1969!: Proposal for an exhibition "CARE" (1969) / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- September 21-October 12, 1974, Claire Copley Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, California (1974) / Michael Asher -- The constituency (1976) / Hans Haacke -- The agent (1977) / Hans Haacke -- II. Institution of art : On practice (1975) / Mel Ramsden -- Lookers, buyers, dealers, and makers: thoughts on audience (1979) / Martha Rosler -- Caution! Alternative space! (1982) / Group Material -- Statement (1983) / Group Material -- Some thoughts on the political character of this situation (1983) / Adrian Piper -- Power relations within existing art institutions (1983) / Adrian Piper -- Museums, managers of consciousness (1984) / Hans Haacke -- In and out of place (1985) / Andrea Fraser -- Why Third text? (1987) / Rasheed Araeen -- Enlarged from the catalogue: the art of Precolumbian gold, The Jan Mitchell collection (1990) / Silvia Kolbowski -- III. Institutionalizing : An artist's statement (1992) / Andrea Fraser -- Constructing the spectacle of culture in museums (1992) / Ivan Karp, Fred Wilson -- A conversation with Martha Buskirk (1994) / Fred Wilson -- Symbolic capital management, or what to do with the good, the true, and the beautiful (1997) / Hans Haacke -- The museum as muse: Asher Reflects (1999) / Michael Asher, Stephan Pascher -- Untitled (1999) / Mark Dion -- Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company (2002) / Maria Eichhorn -- Who's afraid of JK? (2005) / John Knight, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Isabelle Graw -- From the critique of institutions to an institution of critique (2005) / Andrea Fraser -- IV. Exit strategies : 10 items of the covenant (1983) / Laibach -- Tactical media (1996) / Critical Art Ensemble -- Tactics inside and out (2004) / Gregg Bordowitz -- Resymbolizing machines: art after Öyvind Fahlstrom (2004) / Bureau d'Études -- From the object to the concrete intervention (2005) / WochenKlausur -- Engaging ambivalence: interventions in engineering culture (2005) / Institute for Applied Autonomy -- Jude Finisterra interviewed (2004) / The Yes Men -- The institution of critique (2006) / Hito Steyerl.

This title is an anthology of writings & projects by artists from across Europe & the Americas who have developed & expanded the genre of institutional critique. This is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries & museums & on the concept & social function of art itself.