The Progress Trap AC25 set in a vivid world

set in a vivid world of myth

identifying

and the timeless world of Peter Rabbit

you have to go together

while a conversation between Blum and Dorothy Lichtenstein—held on the occasion of this exhibition—further illuminates their rich shared history

The Progress Trap AC25 set in a vivid worldThe idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to todays mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things will get better and that history is on our side. However, in doing this it creates a form of authority that is simultaneously imaginary and dishonest, resting on confidence in a future that is really contingent and