当代艺术如何在消费社会及大众传媒时代继续发挥其前卫的社会政治批评功能是西方及当代中国艺术家需要思考和解答的一个问题。对于这个问题,王南溟提出了“批评性艺术”或“艺术的新闻批评”两个概念,并在去年在本栏目撰文举例介绍了通过制造艺术事件,从而进入大众传媒新闻内容,借以对时政进行批评的艺术家汉斯·哈克。本期他又介绍了两位针对人权问题展开艺术创作的“批评性艺术家”布拉德利·麦克考伦和贾奎琳·泰里的创作,希望这些艺术家的实践能够给中国当代艺术创作提供一个可供参考的新思路。本期河清的文章针对本栏目今年第2期刊发的王南溟对美国抽象表现主义学术研究与国家艺术政策之间关系的文章,提出了反驳意见。问题不辩不明,读者有兴趣可以关注一下两种不同的意见,并欢迎大家就此问题继续争鸣,不过我认为比美国对抽象表现主义艺术的国家政策是阴谋还是阳谋更重要的是,我们对西方当代艺术的运行体制还没有一个清晰认识,因此也希望今后的学术研究能在这方面有所侧重。 How contemporary art can continue to exert its avant-garde social and political criticism in the era of consumer society and mass media is a question that Western and contemporary Chinese artists need to think and answer. On this issue, Wang Nanming put forward two concepts of “critical art” or “news criticism of the arts.” In last year’s article, he wrote an article introducing examples of making the mass media news content critical by creating artistic events so as to criticize the current politics Artist Hans Huck. In this installment, he also introduced the creation of two critically acclaimed artists Bradley McCurul and Jacqueline Terry, who are engaged in artistic creation of human rights issues, hoping that the practice of these artists will provide a place for Chinese contemporary art creation. New ideas for reference. In this issue of He Qing, Wang Nanming’s articles on the relationship between the academic studies of American abstract expressions and the state’s art policy are presented in the second issue of this column. The reader is interested in looking at two different opinions and welcomes continued debate on this issue, but I think it is more important than the U.S. conspiracy or act for the national policy of abstract expressionist art. There is no clear understanding of the operational system of Western contemporary art. Therefore, it is hoped that academic research in the future will lay particular emphasis on this aspect.