Evidentiary Realism

governed by the influence of major banks, Haacke’s demand for public knowledge of the truth behind power rises in urgency.

At the same time, the thick entanglements of art, financial, and political power have only increased in their complexity.

Today, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the largest bank in the United States, with extensive international interests, $1,602,352M in Domestic Assets and $2,118,497M in Consolidated Assets.19 President and CEO of the bank, Jamie Dimon, is an advisor in President Trump’s Strategy and Policy Forum. Also in the Forum is Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Inc., the largest asset manager in the world, currently overseeing $5.15 trillion in assets; as of January 2017, $1 trillion of the funds managed

by BlackRock are now under the custodianship of JPMorgan Chase.20 Fink is on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Modern Art, and in 2016 he received the David Rockefeller Award, presented annually by MoMA to “an individual from the business community who exemplifies enlightened generosity and effective advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors.” In MoMA’s 2006 expansion, the portion of the museum housing their exhibition spaces was named the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building. When on view, Haacke’s works in MoMA’s collection will be exhibited in that building. Returning to Deutsche and Tyson’s observations concerning the potential for Haacke’s work to claim a “democratic” sphere, made possible by its ‘parasitic’ inhabitation within the art institution and art industry, there is one more layer within this archeology of power relations that is worth exposing. Since 1971, Haacke has sold his work using The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, a contract written by curator/dealer of Conceptual art Seth Siegelaub and lawyer Robert Projansky that enables artists to retain a radically high level of control over the exhibition, reproduction, and resale of their work.21 Copies of the Siegelaub-Projansky Agreement reside in various collections in the museum’s archive holdings, and when MoMA acquired Haacke’s work The Solomon R. Guggenheim Board of Trustees (1974) in 2011 as part of the Herman and Nicole Daled Collection, the museum became a signatory to its governing contract.22 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Board of Trustees traces family memberships and corporate directorships of the 22