>The reason the arts declined over the
>neoliberal era was because the working class base, where most artist
>come from were cut off.
Compare the Los Angeles art scene in the movie you talked about recently and now. Those people in the movie couldn't afford rent now There's no place to squat even.
But there's always stuff coming through the cracks. Right now I'm real high on Antony (Hegarty).
>Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art
>driven by high-profile graduate programs. Probing the surface of
>art-critical buzzwords, Chris Kraus brilliantly chronicles how the
>City of Angels has suddenly become the epicenter of the
>international art world and a microcosm of the larger culture. Why
>is Los Angeles art so completely divorced from other realities of
>the city? Shrewd, analytic and witty, Video Green is to the Los
>Angeles art world what Roland Barthes' Mythologies were to the
>society of the spectacle: the live autopsy of a ghost city.
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