New York City is an art capital–this context looms over today’s art communities. In the 1970s, the art system began to abet a pernicious transformation of the city. Intimately told, the film CULTURAL CAPITAL is a survey of selected art and criticism that considers a past era echoing in the present.

Jamie Chan, artist and former Art Against Displacement member
Rosalyn Deutsche, art historian and critic
Hal Foster, art critic and historian
Deanna Havas, artist
Ming Lin, artist and Shanzhai Lyric co-founder
Sylvère Lotringer (1938-2021), literary critic, cultural theorist, and editor
Leah Pires, scholar
Martha Rosler, artist
Peter Rostovsky, artist and writer
Georgia Sagri, artist and one of the main organizers of the OWS movement