Hi Joel, I feel that the 'art world' has always been much larger in reality, than certain establishments would like us to believe - whether this be in history or in everyday art practice.
It's alive & kicking anyway - and the transdisciplinary side of it all for me is the more interesting element, existing at the edge of things... wishing you well. marc > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
