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Are Creatives Too Nostalgic?
There’s more than one type of nostalgia around art.
Art media coverage seems to highlight the Old Masters, people who haven’t made art in a long time—heck, they haven’t even breathed in centuries! Their work gets a disproportionate amount of arts coverage not because art critics are nostalgic for an earlier time, and not because their art is awesome (although it is), but because of the giant sums it fetches.
Some artists have nostalgia for themselves at an earlier time, before fatigue and cynicism pinned them to the floor.
Some of us feel nostalgia for the in-person meetings and connections…
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