published in Bizlex

It’s been a while since I blogged. For one thing I had an article published in Business Lexington, a mashup of two previous posts called “Putting Creativity on the Payroll”, suggesting that CEO’s put an artist on the payroll just to be an artist, and one on buying from local artists, "Art Destinations Need Patrons Who Prize Hometown Art".  (See links below.)  The intent is to foster an indigenous movement which supports working artists and recognizes their contribution as members of a progressive and humane community.

I think art movements begin with awakening audiences, not with genius artists, and why not here and now is my question. We look around to find ourselves in a desert, miles and miles of seamless walls and nothing but decorator prints and couch paintings. Information and exposure is all the water we need.

The way we were……….

 Essentially I think there are artists everywhere, and the variable factor is audience, which has been suppressed by both commercial and academic interests. The business side wants to narrow and control the product producing artificial scarcity, while the state-supported side wants to avoid the scrutiny of just about everybody while getting paid. They both promote an exclusionary art which justifies itself through a consensus of self-interests, and each affects a manner aloof and condescending toward the general public. This isn’t the time to argue with them, and prove them wrong -- it’s time to do something else.

http://www.bizlex.com/Articles-c-2010-10-14-95608.113117-Putting-creativity-on-the-payroll.html 

www.bizlex.com/Articles-c-2010-11-24-96181.113117-Art-destinations-need-patrons-who-prize-hometown-art.html