«The agonizing reality is that, after the pandemic, any resurgence of the hegemonic “art world,” let alone the art market – and here I have in mind the field of visual art, even when it has exceeded “the visual” – must be seen to index the restoration of finance capital’s hegemony (which enriches the lion’s share of the collectors and benefactors), and therefore as catastrophically bad for humanity.»
No Artist Left Alive
Some of my best friends around the world are artists, and I’m deeply concerned about their economic wellbeing during and after the isolation and lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. I find myself vexed by the language of some of the calls I have seen to “rescue art,” at least when taken in isola…