![]() And while justice and equity maybe goals for a democratic political culture, they have never been the principles that drive the most powerful patrons and artists of the art world. “Equity won’t be achieved by a new biennial, another emerging artist of color survey, or a record auction sale by a Black artist. But much of it falls outside of what traditional institutions and galleries can manage because it does not take the form of objects - it involves performance, pirate radio, public art, digital interventions, multiples, DIY publications, and social practice.” “We know that during economic downturns, conceptually driven and socially engaged art gets more attention from the press and the public. “I’m skeptical about the idea that artists should whip up new works for a liberal elite that appears to be open to “heart-wrenching” tales of injustice and an “uplifting” imagining of better futures.” And for art to be art in aesthetic theory it has to be disassociated from use-value, it’s only exchange value, it’s only symbolic value.” Because even to call something activist engagement is to give it a kind of functionalist cast. “There isn’t a positive interpretive discourse in art for activist engagement. If you’re going to do activism then you’re going to make something simple that is not going to have a long life.” ![]() “Always, it’s always framed as propagandistic and insufficiently sophisticated to constitute a valid aesthetic experience. “…how the art world deals with this notion of activism and art is always cast in a very negative light.” “The World’s Most Expensive Paintings chronicles” BBC 2011 “the value of a painting at auction is not necessarily the value of the painting it’s the value of two people bidding against each other because they really want the painting” Today the painting is even known informally as the Rockefeller Rothko which says it all! The name of its former owner is as important as that of the artist.” “In 1960 David Rockefeller paid less than ten thousand dollars for “White Center” half a century later it was worth more than 72 million dollars. “And in the case of Rothko’s white Center, it was owned by one of the wealthiest and most powerful dynasties in America: the Rockefellers, who amassed their fortune from oil and banking and reshaped the New York skyline with the Rockefeller Center.“ Something that can send the price of a painting rocketing is what’s known in the art world as provenance: Who has owned the painting in the past.” “The important thing to remember is that value isn’t only linked to quality. To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. ![]() Here is a quote from 2011 that would work very well with NFTs today. Inspirational Quotes Tumblr About Happiness. ![]()
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