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I think there are actually two art scenes. The pre-gentrified art scene and the post-gentrified art scene. The post-gentrified scene almost always completely su
by jonnybgood 2y ago
I think there are actually two art scenes. The pre-gentrified art scene and the post-gentrified art scene. The post-gentrified scene almost always completely supplants the pre-gentrified scene. Leaving only scattered remnants of what came before and sometimes leaving no trace at all.
An example of this can be seen in NYC, particularly in the gentrification of Brooklyn.
There’s this wannabe poetry Banksy artist that graffiti’s their handle with a corny, cheesy “deep” sentence all around NYC. These corny one-liners of his shows in galleries too. It feels so commercialized. Whenever I see them, I know this area has completed gentrification.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoKoons is a multimillionaire from selling scaled up kitsch cranked out by his staff. Being commercial works if you can play the game right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons
- johnnybaptist 2y agolol I already know you're talking about that 8soulsdeep dork
- jonnybgood 2y agoYes, and I have yet to meet another New Yorker who finds it appealing. Apparently, from what I've gathered, tourists love it. I guess that's how it works: tourists take pictures of the graffiti, spread it over social media, artist writes the same corny words on an object you can put in your home, profit.
- etrautmann 2y agoI’m a less happy having been made aware of 7soulsdeep. It’s so fundamentally commercial in nature that it’s quite different from what graffiti used to be. Clearly street artists have been monetizing using social media for a while but this is both hyper cringe yet more successful than I’ve seen before.