"General Conditions"

With his stronghold going strong in Kinderhook, Jack Shainman’s The School inaugurates the summer season with “General Conditions,” a dynamic group exhibition featuring over 30 artists working in a range of creative media, including heavyweights such as Gordon Parks, Yoan Capote, and Deb Willis. With the protean title as an open-ended baseline for this show, the concept of ‘general conditions’ as expressed through art highlights a multiplicity of creative strategies for navigating the shifting social-political realities of today, where notions of “exploitation” and “weaponization” are explored (and exploded) as these artists address the threats of late-stage capitalism in all its complexity.