Margaret Sundell (Ph.D., Columbia University) is consulting director of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. A former art editor at Time Out New York, her writing has also appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, and Documents. Sundell has taught art history and critical theory at Columbia University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Parsons The New School for Design.
Responding to the rapid, often violent transformations of the twenty-first century, contemporary artists have displayed a growing desire to activate art’s documentary capacity: its ability to bear witness to events in the world.