Today's successful artists, from Damien Hirst to Jeff Koons, often portray themselves as rejecting the norms of society and present their work as a challenge to the establishment. Yet in practice, they couldn't be more part of the status quo. The five most celebrated artists have a combined worth of $2 billion.
Are today's galleries monuments to money, fame and status rather than monuments to artistic merit? Is it a fallacy to imagine an artist can be hugely commercially successful and countercultural at the same time? Or is it prejudice to suppose that the rich can't also be critics of the system that has propelled their success?
#capitalism #ArtAsFad #NFTs
Journalist and art market expert Georgina Adam, art-critic Paddy Johnson, and critically-acclaimed writer Janne Teller debate money, fame and value in the art world. Myriam Francois hosts.
The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics. Subscribe today!
15