On the occasion of Printed Matter’s 2021 Virtual Art Book Fair, East of Borneo Editor-in-Chief Tom Lawson joined artists Emma Kemp and Fiona Connor to discuss the role, function, and value of arts education during the sudden transition to remote learning spawned by the global pandemic. As artists and as educators, what do we do when institutional legacy—and memory—is out of sync with reality? The following is an edited transcript of the discussion held on Zoom on February 27, 2021.

John Baldessari at the opening of his exhibition at Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles, 1968. Photo by Phillip T. Jones and courtesy of Baldessari Estate. In the days following John Baldessari’s death in early January this year, I dug into my archives looking for something to re-post on…