Leslie Rankow, right, an art consultant based in Manhattan, discussed a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat with a client at Van de Weghe Fine Art, a gallery in Chelsea.From the New York Times:
By Julie Bick, May 27, 2007
• Webbing: Art Museums/National Gallery of Art
• Webbing: Art Activist/Art in the Public Interest
• Freeland, Ch. 4
• Goldbard, Ch. 3 & 4
• complete work with event group
Tu 4 Mar—Your group's event and definition of feminism—ASS. #2 DUE; presentations
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Contrast the Art Worlds, Markets and Money of elite and prestige arts projects analyzed by Freeland with the community cultural development work described by Goldbard
art history // community studies
end products // process, interdisciplinary, wide social impact
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WHAT'S A POOR ARTIST TO DO?
Wanting in on the Art Worlds -- as artist, as investor, as supporter, as public, as education, as "culture"
Wanting to escape the Art Markets -- how to (not) make money
Museums -- from royal collections and rich people's stuff to public institutions and national, local and community pride
Taste and Priviledge -- class matters: vulgar, popular, mass, marketable, kitsch, reproductions
Public Museums -- national prestige, tribalized collections, civilizing intentions, capitalist accumulation
Philanthropists and Corporations -- taxation, privatization, image and public relations
What should be the mood of a museum visit?
What should be the public of art?
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Goldbard describes a "Matrix of Practice"
- structured learning experiences
- public dialogs rather than debates
- records of suppressed or denied events
- self-created public spaces, institutions, facilities, resources, amenities
- the "town artist" -- resident arts
Histories: contrast:
=Official history
=mainstream history
=oral histories
=living memories
=folktales and storytelling
Cultural Identities and Cultural Infrastructures
pp 27-73: casting selves as history makers; alternative economic structures
Goldbard p. 75:
"In contrast to elite arts activity, which asserts the primacy of 'art for art's sake,' community cultural development is undertaken in aid of the larger goals of social transformation and personal liberation. In some cases, arts activity provides a sort of lab or rehersal for social action."
Goldbard, Chap 4, describes the "details" of a particular set of projects, so you can see how these intentions work out in a particular setting.
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MUSIC:
Zap Mama, "Bandy, Bandy," from Ancestry in Progress (2004), Wikipedia bio
their website
Laurie Anderson, "O Superman" (1981), Wikipedia bio
Official website
