Opening Reception: Creative Destruction

The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street

Please join us for the free opening reception of Creative Destruction, curated by the Whitney Independent Study Program’s 2012 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows denisse andrade arévalo, 
Liz Park
, Tim Saltarelli
, and Kristina Scepanski.

Creative destruction refers to capitalism’s inherent tendency to create new wealth by destroying the previous economic order. Initially described by Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto, this concept was popularized in the United States after World War II when economist Joseph Schumpeter adapted it as a model of economic innovation but still warned of its self-destructive nature. Creative Destruction reclaims the phrase in order to emphasize how preexisting systems of representation can be reconfigured for different political purposes.

This event is free of charge and open to the public.