The Future of Arts Journalism
Kurt asks András Szántó, senior lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art, where he sees arts coverage headed.
May 15, 2009
Kurt asks András Szántó, senior lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art, where he sees arts coverage headed.
Dear Andras Szanto - Are you out of your freaking mind? You want Arts dollars to go to JOURNALISTS? Listen to me, you useless, outmoded relic - the free market has CHOSEN and it has chosen to call your so-called work OBSOLETE by abandoning print media. So SAYONARA, sucker. You want Arts dollars? Here's a radical idea: Try CREATING something for a change, rather than coercing actual creative people to engage in some empty "dialogue" with you (a useless, parasitical CRITIC) as a pretext for the destruction of their work. Make some ART if you want art dollars. Otherwise, go look for temp work, you zero.
Andras, I think your piece is very thought-provoking and at least it offers some dialogue and a starting point for conversation that is needed. There has to be a some conversation to eventually bring about some type of alternative. I think the payment sources/streams/ideas are viable to some degree and who knows they may work.
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