{"id":2208,"date":"2010-08-02T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2010-08-02T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:26:49","slug":"mary-corrigall-on-art-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/mary-corrigall-on-art-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Corrigall on Art and Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just tweeted this, but the whole last two paragraphs are too good not to post. Granted, Corrigall is speaking mostly of the South African art scene, but it applies everywhere, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The growth of the commercial sector of the art market since the advent of democracy has seen a power shift in which national and regional public art institutions no longer are the dictating authority on art. Given that many of these institutions were initially sluggish to transform in terms of widening the scope of their curatorial policies to include art and exhibitions of the work of previously marginalised artists, this actuality wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily a negative one \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it has in some senses democratised art production, opening up discourses and allowing marginalised artists to enter the fray. Of course, the majority of these new galleries are white owned thus the power relations within this sector has remained skewed.<\/p>\n<p>Because commercial galleries now hold the authority and under-funded public art institutions have become increasingly dependent on corporate funding, the brand of art that is displayed and celebrated is increasingly being determined by commercial factors or to meet the requirements of corporate sponsors. In other words art that might not be critically prized by academia, art producers or critics, is regularly given a pride of place in commercial galleries and other commercial settings such as at an art fair. This democratisation of the arts might have opened the once closed doors of the art world but it also means anyone with enough financial clout can dictate what kinds of art should be valued \u00e2\u20ac\u201c often these individuals believe that their affinity for art automatically grants them insider knowledge of contemporary art practice. Thus the intellectual gulf between patrons and the arts intelligentsia is often quite vast.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corrigall.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/art-and-capitalism.html\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just tweeted this, but the whole last two paragraphs are too good not to post. Granted, Corrigall is speaking mostly of the South African art scene, but it applies everywhere, I believe. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The growth of the commercial sector of the art market since the advent of democracy has seen a power shift in which national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-zC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":763,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/art-south-africa-is-powerless\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":0},"title":"art | south africa is powerless","author":"nathaniel","date":"11 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is probably related to this other post about the lack of reviews of emerging artists in joburg... I can't decide whether I find it amusing or enraging that in art | south africa's big issue on \"power and influence,\" they've almost completely written themselves out. 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This is an amazing opportunity for South Africans to learn about online contemporary art from two of its ongoing pioneers and most noteworthy supporters of commissioned work. Live and in person!The Upgrade! Johannesburg and Wits Digital Arts proudly present:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Turbulence.org at Wits Digital Arts","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/turbulence-flyer.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":44,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/marcus-neustetter-interview\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":4},"title":"marcus neustetter interview","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 March 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a great interview I did with Marcus Neustetter, of The Trinity Session, South Africa. The Trinity Session is a Johannesburg-based creative collective whose work ranges from curating and exhibiting art, to community development and empowerment projects, and the networking of South African artists with each other and the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art and tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/09\/new-forms\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":5},"title":"new forms","author":"nathaniel","date":"09 April 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The New Forms Festival is an annual festival forum highlighting emerging forms at the junction of art, culture and technology.\" It'd be nice to see some South African arts\/academic representation there - the call for works and abstracts is current. 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