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Art in recession
Views from the blogs about the current economic climate.
"Art in a recession is no different from art in a boom; art is always a different vocabulary of desire." Jeanette Winterson, The Times, 31 October http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5053810.ece "If the economic crisis does become this century's Great Depression, how will art be changed? That seems hard to answer without also considering politics³ In the 1930s art was divided between Left and Right, as well as between modernist and realist. It mattered more where you stood than how you painted. Those on the Left who see opportunity here will soon be disabused. Instead, the terror of capitalism in crisis without the alternative of Marxism is that irrational alternatives will flourish. We are more likely to get a new Riefenstahl than a new Walker Evans." Jonathan Jones www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/sep/19/art.photography "Guerilla art - that is art designed to subvert those who would buy and sell it, and art designed to reach people in innovative ways - is the only art really deserving of a capital A in my opinion." Garamasala, commenting on Jonathan Jones' blog post. "New research published by NESTA shows that...
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