This is strange because the Art Market has been like this--an investment market for the rich--for centuries, and the only thing most artists did was try break into it. In any case, this protest is a good thing for art, and I hope it spreads to the Art World, which is much larger than New York thinks it is.
-Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: info To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 4:22 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] Taking the Protests to the Art World Taking the Protests to the Art World By MELENA RYZIK The Occupy Wall Street movement took on the art world, sort of, this week, with a splinter group, Occupy Museums. Convened on Thursday evening through a Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr posts, about 20 people made their way from the Museum of Modern Art to the New Museum to a downtown gallery, protesting what they say is the conflation of art and commerce, the snobbery of the art market and high ticket prices at museums, which they called the “temples of the cultural elite.” http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/taking-the-protests-to-the-art-world/?smid=tw-artsbeat2&seid=auto _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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