Creativity + Art

A New Creativity?
http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2641

I’d say the bohemian fantasy is sweet and sentimental, but rather insulting to artists. In my experience, artists do what they do, market or no market. During the ‘80s boom, terrific work was being made by artists who barely got the time of day, and some of them were artists we simply started to look at in the ‘90s as the dust settled from the crash. That will happen again.
- Christopher Knight, Art critic, Los Angeles Times

You sometimes need five to seven years to learn your craft, to pull it together, and you live off the crumbs of a vigorous market. When the market closes down, the crumbs disappear and a lot of artists are pretty much destroyed or really seriously hampered.
- Alex Katz

Useful links:
www.alexkatz.com
www.vmfa.state.va.us
www.moca-la.org
www.performa-arts.org
www.lacma.org
www.galerielelong.com
www.bard.edu/ccs
www.tate.org.uk
www.ps1.org
www.queensmuseum.org
www.sfmoma.org
www.aldrichart.org
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu
www.newmuseum.org
www.labiennale.org
www.philamuseum.org
http://art.yale.edu
www.mocanomi.org

Spot on. I think 2009 = 1989 + the boom/bust cycle will continue forever. Ann, Thank you for the insightful article.