Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy

Eklund, Douglas and Ian Alteveer, with contributions by Meredith A. Brown, John Miller, Kathryn Olmsted, and Beth Saunders, preface by Jonathan Lethem
2018
196 pages
222 illustrations
9 x 10.5 in.
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Since the mid-twentieth century, conspiracy has pervaded our collective worldview, shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11. Everything Is Connected examines how artists from the 1960s to the present have explored both the covert operations of power and the mutual suspicion between governments and their citizens. Featured are works by some thirty artists—including Sarah Charlesworth, Emory Douglas, Hans Haacke, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Mark Lombardi, Cady Noland, Trevor Paglen, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and Sue Williams—in media ranging from painting, drawing, and photography to video and installation art. Whether they uncover webs of deceit hidden in the public record or dive headlong into paranoid fever dreams, these artists use their work to take a powerful and proactive stance against the political corruption, consumerism, bureaucracy, and media manipulation that are hallmarks of contemporary life.

Nine Jackies, Andy Warhol  American, Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Andy Warhol
1964
Hope for the Future, Charles Wilbert White  American, Lithograph
Charles Wilbert White
1945
Multiple artists/makers
1969
AIDSGATE, Silence = Death Project  American, Lithograph
Silence = Death Project
1987
AIDS: 1 in 61, Gran Fury, Offset lithograph
Gran Fury
1988
Enjoy AZT, Avram Finkelstein  American, Offset lithograph
Avram Finkelstein
Vince Gagliostro
1990
Fact or Fiction, Avram Finkelstein  American, Color photo-offset lithograph, printed in black and red inks
Avram Finkelstein
Donald Moffett
1989
Richard Avedon
James Angleton
1976
598 / Variable Piece #70 : 1971 (In Process) Global 1975, Douglas Huebler  American, Gelatin silver prints and typescript
Douglas Huebler
1975
Portrait (A. Siekmann), Thomas Ruff  German, Chromogenic print
Thomas Ruff
1987
The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview, Lutz Bacher  American, Photocopies, typescript, tape, and ink
Lutz Bacher
1976
April 21, 1978, Sarah Charlesworth  American, Chromogenic prints
Sarah Charlesworth
1978
Stasi City, Jane and Louise Wilson  British, Four-channel digital video, transferred from Super 16mm film, color, sound, 4 min., 50 sec.
Jane and Louise Wilson
1997
Winchester, Jeremy Blake  American, Single-channel digital animation, color, sound, 12 min.
Jeremy Blake
2002
1906, Jeremy Blake  American, Single-channel digital animation, color, sound, 21 min.
Jeremy Blake
2003
Century 21, Jeremy Blake  American, Single-channel digital animation, color, sound, 12 min.
Jeremy Blake
2004
Walid Raad
1991/2003
"It's Not My Memory of It": three recollected documents, Julia Meltzer  American, Single-channel digital video, color, sound, 25 min.
Julia Meltzer
David Thorne
2003
Jim Shaw
1978
UFO Polaroid (from the UFO Photos Series), Jim Shaw  American, Instant internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX-70) with airbrush paint
Jim Shaw
1977
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Eklund, Douglas, Ian Alteveer, and Jonathan Lethem. 2018. Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.