An Attestation for Editorial Independence

An Attestation for Editorial Independence

October 27, 2023

In light of alleged interference with the editorial independence of Artforum, which comes after a multi-year period of corporate consolidation that has impacted the editorial viability of historically significant American art magazines:

We, the undersigned, as contributors to, and members of the art industry covered by, the following subsidiaries of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), hereby withdraw our future participation in any editorial or commercial activities of:

—Artforum Media, LLC d/b/a Artforum International Magazine, ArtforumEDU, artforum.com

—Art Media, LLC d/b/a Art in America, ARTnews, AiA Guide, artnews.com

Our non-participation is inclusive of, but not limited to: paid and unpaid subscription, contribution of writing or granting of publication rights, contribution of images or granting of image rights, purchase of advertising, consulting engagements, social media engagement, and the granting of on- or off-record interviews to employees or contractors of such entities.

Our withdrawal is perpetually attached to the brand identities of these publications, with survivorship to any successor entity with whole or partial claim to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office word marks Artforum, Art in America, or Artnews (“ARTFORUM” reg. #1171189; “ART IN AMERICA” reg. #1256855; “ARTNEWS” reg. #5769773, U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.).

This letter, to the extent that it is binding, may be renegotiated upon satisfaction that conditions of editorial freedom are met, namely in case of material changes in editorial organization, such as the disposition of any of the foregoing PMC subsidiaries to their staffs.

We want independent forums for art. The official culture of our time is self-destructively conservative. Moments of possibility can arise negatively, when the fallowness of existing conditions calls for other, better things to grow.

The undersigned are to be construed as having personally and independently arrived at their decision to sign this document.

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Signatories (in formation)

* indicates self-attested past contribution to Artforum, Art in America, and/or ARTnews

Elene Abashidze

Basel Abbas

Sophie Abramowitz*

Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Clay AD

Mira Adoumier

Rahel Aima*

Alexander Alberro*

Osama Alrayyan

Francesca Altamura

Nora M Alter*

Billie Anania*

Melissa Anderson*

Ava Ansari*

Denise Araouzou

Annie Armstrong*

Mirene Arsanios

American Artist*

Qais Assali*

Lara Atallah*

Julie Ault*

Todd Ayoung

Negar Azimi*

Graham Bader*

hannah baer*

Stephanie Bailey*

Katie Brewer Ball*

Thea Ballard*

Erika Balsom*

V Bartlett

Morgan Bassichis*

Thomas Beard*

Ashlyn Behrndt

Hugo Bausch Belbachir

Xenia Benivolski*

Anjali Benjamin-Webb

Omar Berrada

Jackson Beyda

Yalda Bidshahri*

Maya Binyam*

Hannah Black*

Jenna Bliss

Edna Bonhomme

David Borgonjon*

Meka Boyle*

Shane Boyle

Rizvana Bradley*

Julia Bryan-Wilson*

Joe Bucciero*

Kevin Buist*

Harry Burke*

Siobhan Burke*

Tom Burr*

Gabo Camnitzer

Sean J Patrick Carney*

Swagato Chakravorty*

Andrew Chan

Phil Chang*

Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide)*

Howie Chen*

Phoebe Chen*

Caitlin Cherry*

Daniel Chew

Canada Choate*

Re’al Christian*

Mary Helena Clark

Yve Laris Cohen*

Phil Coldiron*

Roger L. Conover*

Dushko Petrovich Córdova*

Anne Cousineau

Ashley Couto

Jonathan Crary*

Olivia Crough*

Thomas Crow*

María Palacios Cruz

Daniel Culpan*

Cassie da Costa*

Trinie Dalton*

Catherine Quan Damman*

Michael Dango*

Jake Davidson

Heather Davis

Mira Dayal*

Chiara De Cesari

Aria Dean*

Karen Di Franco

Brian Dillon*

Sam Dolbear*

Claire Donato

Michelle Donnelly

Kerry Doran*

Jesse Dorris*

Emory Douglas*

Ayanna Dozier*

Brian Droitcour*

Amalle Dublon*

Kit Duckworth*

Jarrett Earnest*

Curtis Eckley

Tess Edmonson

Thomas Eggerer*

Yasmine El Rashidi*

Olamiju Fajemisin*

Adham Faramawy

Abou Farman*

Johanna Fateman*

E. C. Feiss

Hannah Feldman*

Jules Pelta Feldman*

Alex Fialho*

Jazmina Figueroa*

Ciarán Finlayson*

Jameson Fitzpatrick*

iLiana Fokianaki

Nathalie Frankowski*

Sasha Frere-Jones*

Edward Frumkin

Kay Gabriel*

Cruz Garcia

Anthony Gardner

Dorota Gawęda

Carl Gent

Jeanne Gerrity*

Mariam Ghani*

Kylie Gilchrist*

Adam Gill

Melanie Gilligan*

Amber Ginsburg

Devika Girish

Katie Giritlian

Ariel Goldberg*

Peter Goldberg

Nan Goldin*

Leo Goldsmith*

Jerzy Goliszewski

Elisa Gonzalez

Sky Goodden*

Annie Goodner*

Elena Gorfinkel*

Phillip Greenlief*

Teal Griffin

Cassie Grimaldi

Amelia Groom*

Sanja Grozdanic

Gregory Grube*

David Grundy*

Serge Guilbaut

Gracie Hadland*

Rachel Haidu*

Bruce Hainley*

Moze Halperin*

Juliana S Halpert*

Ed Halter*

Justin Han

Sidsel Meineche Hansen*

Jane Ursula Harris*

Jenny Harris*

Anya Harrison*

Tobi Haslett*

Owen Hatherley*

Kaleem Hawa*

Amber Hawk-Swanson

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Mostafa Heddaya*

Joseph Henry*

Martin Herbert*

Laura Herman

Josephine Heston*

Mina Heydari-Waite

Rachel Hunter Himes

Yin Ho*

J. Hoberman*

Mara Hoberman*

Josie Roland Hodson*

Tom Holert*

Deborah-Joyce Holman

Allison Leigh Holt

Lizzie Homersham*

Kevin Hong*

Sky Hopinka*

Zoe Hopkins*

Daniel Horn*

Ekalan Hou*

David Huber*

Aaron Hughes

Dylan Huw*

Xandra Ibarra

Nick Irvin*

Kahlil Irving

Arsalan Isa

sunny iyer

Jessica Jacolbe*

Gareth James*

Tom Jeffreys*

Gvantsa Jgushia

Rindon Johnson*

Eliel Jones*

Rachel Elizabeth Jones*

Imani Mason Jordan

David Joselit*

Sophie Jung

Nadia Kaabi-Linke*

Timo Kaabi-Linke*

Jennifer Kabat*

Steve Kado*

Kang Kang*

Pujan Karambeigi*

Anna Kats*

Gareth Kaye

Matt Keegan*

Liam Kenny

Sam Keogh

Grant Kester*

Adam Khalil*

Nadine Khalil*

Gelare Khoshgozaran*

Layla Khoshnoudi*

Chris King

Jonah King*

Alex Kitnick*

Melanie Kitti

Adam Kleinman*

Dana Kopel*

Shiv Kotecha*

Jennifer Krasinski*

Sarah Krautheim

Egle Kulbokaite

Annie Jael Kwan*

Claudia La Rocco*

Emily LaBarge

Daisy Lafarge

Andrew Lampert*

Rabz Lansiquot

Sophia Larigakis*

Annie Godfrey Larmon*

Quinn Latimer*

Theodore Lau

Carolyn Lazard*

Brian T. Leahy*

Pamela M. Lee*

Sam Lefebvre*

Natasha Lennard

Anneka Lenssen*

Simon Leung*

Jurrell Lewis

Dennis Lim*

Isabel Ling*

Elisa R. Linn*

Lucy R. Lippard*

David Lisbon III

Jasmine Liu*

Chloe Lizotte

Natasha Marie Llorens*

Beatrice Loayza*

Sarah Lookofsky*

Astrid Lorange

Jordan Lord*

Erica Love*

Joan Lubin

Zoey Lubitz*

Jacqueline Mabey

Deborah Macauley

George MacBeth

John MacKay*

André Magaña*

Shaunak Mahbubani*

Geoffrey Mak*

Kabelo Malatsie

Carly Mandel*

Jaleh Mansoor*

Daniel Marcus*

A.V. Marraccini*

Vijay Masharani*

Rebecca Matalon

So Mayer

Jordan Mayfield

Laura McLean-Ferris*

Blair McClendon*

Tiona Nekkia McClodden*

Karl McCool

Kevin McGarry*

Billie McKelvie

Sam McKinniss*

Bryne McLaughlin*

Joanne McNeil*

Ryan Ponder McNamara*

Samuel Medina*

Prita Meier*

John Menick*

Ara H. Merjian*

Sarah Messerschmidt*

Adeena Mey

Tricia Middleton

Alli Miller

Susette Min

Àngels Miralda*

Nicholas D. Mirzoeff*

Mahan Moalemi*

Evan Moffitt*

Marina Molarsky-Beck

Ashley Molese

Virginia L. Montgomery*

Anne Elizabeth Moore*

Magdalena Moskalewicz*

Roberto Mozzachiodi

Nina Muccia

Mariko Munro*

Tawfik Naas

Sara Nadal-Melsió

Hiji Nam*

Edwin Nasr

Hari Nef*

Jennifer Nelson

Daniel Neofetou*

Minh Nguyen*

Bob Nickas*

Kirsty Biff Nicolson

Josh Niland*

Tausif Noor*

Tavia Nyong’o*

Ahmet Öğüt*

Hussein Omar

David O’Neill*

Precious Opara

Maru Pabón

Cassie Packard*

Amanda B Parmer*

Blake Paskal

Max Pearl*

David Peck

Andreas Petrossiants*

Leah Pires*

Gina Pisto

Laura Poitras*

William Powhida*

Yasmina Price*

Stephen Prina*

Sarah Nicole Prickett*

Ralph Pritchard

Risa Puleo*

Anni Pullagura

Farah Al Qasimi

Gregor Quack*

Nasser Rabbat*

Rachael Rakes*

Michael Rakowitz*

Adriana Ramić

Lisi Raskin*

Abyn Blue Atticus Reabe

Pranay Reddy

Angus Reid

Tiana Reid*

Daniel Jonas Roche

Carissa Rodriguez

Sam Roeck

Jake Romm

Roberto Ronzani

Em Rooney*

Tracy Rosenthal*

Betya Roytburd

Nicole Rudick*

Alan Ruiz*

Susanne Sachsse*

Rijin Sahakian*

Josephine Sales*

Zoé Samudzi*

Jasmine Sanders*

Larissa Sansour

Suneil Sanzgiri*

Sarah Schulman*

Erica Scourti

Cory John Scozzari

Alan Martín Segal

Jimin Seo

Ekrem Serdar

sgp

Nizan Shaked*

Girish Shambu*

Christina Sharpe*

Helen Shaw*

Sadia Shirazi*

Elizaveta Shneyderman*

Gregory Sholette*

Daniella Shreir

Tiffany Sia*

Marc Siegel*

Thora Siemsen*

Noah Simblist*

Jeffrey Skoller*

Robert Slifkin*

Willa Smart

William S. Smith*

Ksenia M. Soboleva*

Ebun Sodipo

Grace Sparapani

Kaegan Sparks*

Daniel Spaulding*

Kerstin Stakemeier

Hannah Stamler*

Trevor Stark

Rachel Vera Steinberg

Blake Stimson*

Diamond Stingily*

Brett Story*

Jordan Strafer*

Linda Stupart*

Brandon Sward

Martine Syms*

Ania Szremski*

Rea Tajiri

Jeannine Tang*

Erdem Taşdelen*

Sean Tatol*

Amy Taubin*

Nigel Taylor

Niall Tessier-Lavigne

Minsoo Thigpen

Vanessa Thill*

Skye Arundhati Thomas*

Abhijan Toto*

Ana Tuazon*

Martha Tuttle

Rachel Valinsky*

Luis A. Vázquez*

Mark Verabioff

Nikhil Vettukattil

Janique Vigier*

Marina Vishmidt*

Wendy Vogel*

Claire Voon*

Tony Waite

Brett Wallace*

Ian E Wallace*

Theadora Walsh*

Emilia Wang*

Xueli Wang*

Justin Waugh

Lori Waxman*

Joshua Caleb Weibley

Andrew Weiner

Valerie Werder

Francis Whorrall-Campbell

Axel Wieder*

Elvia Wilk*

Conor Williams*

Evan Calder Williams*

Bryce Wilner

Bryan McGovern Wilson

Jennifer Wilson*

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie*

Susanne M Winterling*

Andrew Witt*

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa*

Harley Wong*

Ian Wooldridge*

Cici Wu*

Danie Wu*

Simon Wu*

Yang-ha

Matvei Yankelevich*

Gillian Young*

Genevieve Yue*

Constantina Zavitsanos*

Nace Zavrl

Raul Zbengheci

Drew Zeiba*

Jerilea Zempel*

Andros Zins-Browne*