Articles on the "corporatization" of the art world? Is the art world full of sell outs?
I'm noticing a lot of younger artists speak very differently about their work and contextualize it in a very specific manner. It also seems we're losing a lot of the characters of the art world, and they're being replaced with adept wordsmiths that speak almost like they're at an hr department for a major company.
Who the artist is, seems to simultaneously be extemely important (identity) while also being completely unimportant (death of the artist, no big art world personas). Someone even like tracy emin is a throwback to another age.
Theres also what appears to me to be a very safe approach and framing. The easiest of this often involves centering an identity as paramount "as a (insert racial identity, sexual orientation or gender) artist I..." ) but the work itself lacks anything trsnsgressice. Ironically those who claim to be pushing the boundaries seem to also be reinforcing the same tropes of the last two decades.
And then of course. There's the rich kids. Which also often lends itself to safe, and lazy work. But also who have a career mindset. They're not living in NYC in a boat in order to make work. They're doing so to network. Bienniales have this same corporate feel.
In a sense it's similar to all the Coachella videos that have come out recently. Basically showing the evolution of the festival from a ragtag sound system and bands willing to play for cheap. It became this corporate sponsored nightmare with exorbitant prices. Transgression here, is replaced with insanely high production sets and visuals.
Anyway. I don't know what did it. If it's social media ruining eveything, or younger generations being scared to take any chances because being cringe is the ultimate sin, and eveything may be filmed and last forever on the internet.