Great article on new directions in the art world – written by Hrag Vartanian, as coverage of a Jerry Saltz lecture – in NYFA.
NYFA Current – Art News for artists and all those who support them
Moneyquote:
The new art world, he conjectured, will be something we won’t recognize, and will be dominated by names that we don’t know today. This transformation may require new styles, approaches, and people rewriting the rules of art and how it is consumed. If the old art world order was controlled by the academy of insular curators and the decadent market hunger for polished trinkets, this brave new world is probably going to be something else entirely. Saltz, in his best American democratic rhetoric, seemed to advocate for an art world that embraces the plurality of the world and recognizes the importance of art beyond a financial investment. “The problem with the art market,†Saltz said returning to the Titanic metaphor “was that we were all in the same boat.†We can only hope that this future art world would probably look like a massive fleet of modest-sized ships, rather than one ill-fated luxury ocean liner.
