Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."
Amis des Pays de Loire, je lance une expo photo au café La Lame Vernie à Trentemoult du 29 mai au 16 juin. Le vernissage aura lieu le 6 juin au soir. Vous pourrez y voir des tirages Photosynthèses (noir et blanc et cyanotypes) et d'autres cyanotypes de séries différentes. Au plaisir de vous y croiser ! #photography#believeinfilm#exhibition#exposition#artanantes
New at my Patreon... Visiting Ballarat, we saw an exhibition that crosses Palm Springs architecture with Australia's - from model motels to desert/beach shacks:
If you go for a stroll in Birkenhead Park in the next fortnight, there's an exhibition in the Visitor Centre... It runs from 13:00 on May 11 until 16:00 on May 25.
Opening hours 10:30 - 16:00, every day. #exhibition#Wirral#BirkenheadPark#art#paintings