“Artists will realize they need to subvert and circumnavigate the art world, which will be irrelevant forever.”
Fantastic. This is how era-defining movements are born, which makes this an exciting time to be alive and working, albeit against the odds. Our challenge now is to keep delivering our best and most honest work in the face of a culture still hell-bent on denying us both sustenance and visibility.
We've got this... Honestly, I'm excited to see what happens next.
Just to throw a little optimism into the mix: we don't really know how the art world as a whole is going to respond to Trump's reelection yet. Tina Rivers Ryan at Artforum has her view, but it's clearly a view that's backed up by far less enthusiasm among the broader population than it was at the beginning of Trump season 1.
When you see the writing on the wall years before others do and are left to watch the train barreling towards the cliff for years, helpless to stop it, it can be easy to assume that nothing will ever change, that we'll be trapped by forces beyond our control in the same ideological cage forever, but things do eventually change. It's just that it takes a long time for the bulk of people to understand failed ideologies. Some of us can see where they're going when they first start gaining steam, but most people who get caught up in these things need overwhelming evidence that *the plan obviously isn't working* thrown in their faces dramatically in order to learn.
Even though I can only assume a lot of the results of Trump's reelection aren't going to be good, his return is pretty damned obvious and dramatic evidence that identitarian social justice ideology is a dismal failure.
Of course there are plenty of people embedded in these institutions that now feel they depend upon this failed ideology, and they're going to try to hang on to it, but ultimately if they're not backed up by a critical mass of the broader population, their power will wane.
Maybe the democratic party and the art world will continue driving themselves into the ground and ignoring the collateral damage of their self destructive tendencies. I don't know. But I at least want to give things a little time before I come to any conclusions about what might or might not change.
A new movement? Or at least a reflected return to old aesthetics? I for one would like to see beauty and form injected back into the art world. My own musical evolution of late is an unconscious desire for this I think, as I find myself basically playing rock. I long for Romanesque pillars and intricately crafted statues of the human form. We’ve deconstructed enough … let’s build art that rests on a solid notion of reality.
The left supports identity politics propaganda as art. The right no art at all. I don't know which is worse. Otherwise both sides are for wealth transfers to the rich, wars, genocides and ecocides. I don't know why all this enthusiasm for Trump. I liked it better when you were making fun of both sides.
“Artists will realize they need to subvert and circumnavigate the art world, which will be irrelevant forever.”
Fantastic. This is how era-defining movements are born, which makes this an exciting time to be alive and working, albeit against the odds. Our challenge now is to keep delivering our best and most honest work in the face of a culture still hell-bent on denying us both sustenance and visibility.
We've got this... Honestly, I'm excited to see what happens next.
Just to throw a little optimism into the mix: we don't really know how the art world as a whole is going to respond to Trump's reelection yet. Tina Rivers Ryan at Artforum has her view, but it's clearly a view that's backed up by far less enthusiasm among the broader population than it was at the beginning of Trump season 1.
When you see the writing on the wall years before others do and are left to watch the train barreling towards the cliff for years, helpless to stop it, it can be easy to assume that nothing will ever change, that we'll be trapped by forces beyond our control in the same ideological cage forever, but things do eventually change. It's just that it takes a long time for the bulk of people to understand failed ideologies. Some of us can see where they're going when they first start gaining steam, but most people who get caught up in these things need overwhelming evidence that *the plan obviously isn't working* thrown in their faces dramatically in order to learn.
Even though I can only assume a lot of the results of Trump's reelection aren't going to be good, his return is pretty damned obvious and dramatic evidence that identitarian social justice ideology is a dismal failure.
Of course there are plenty of people embedded in these institutions that now feel they depend upon this failed ideology, and they're going to try to hang on to it, but ultimately if they're not backed up by a critical mass of the broader population, their power will wane.
Maybe the democratic party and the art world will continue driving themselves into the ground and ignoring the collateral damage of their self destructive tendencies. I don't know. But I at least want to give things a little time before I come to any conclusions about what might or might not change.
sublime!
Who "once considered the art world the peak of forward thinking creativity"?
Certainly not the kind of reactionaries reading this sort of intellectual pablum.
A new movement? Or at least a reflected return to old aesthetics? I for one would like to see beauty and form injected back into the art world. My own musical evolution of late is an unconscious desire for this I think, as I find myself basically playing rock. I long for Romanesque pillars and intricately crafted statues of the human form. We’ve deconstructed enough … let’s build art that rests on a solid notion of reality.
The left supports identity politics propaganda as art. The right no art at all. I don't know which is worse. Otherwise both sides are for wealth transfers to the rich, wars, genocides and ecocides. I don't know why all this enthusiasm for Trump. I liked it better when you were making fun of both sides.
so unsubscribe very simple
I still appreciate your criticism of the artworld, and that you were lucid during covid times.