I read the article Frieze After the Freeze by Jerry Saltz, and highly recommend it. My favorite thought is:
“…Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art. The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. New generations took the stage; new communities spawned energy; things opened up; deadwood washed away. With luck, New Museum curator Laura Hoptman’s wish will come true: “Art will flower and triumph not as a hobby, an investment, or a career, but as what it is and was—a life.”
To read the complete article, go to Frieze After the Freeze
At London’s big art fair, signs of financial trouble abound. But maybe that’s okay.
By Jerry Saltz
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