The Vibe Shifted in Art. Now What?
We don’t need to tell anyone listening that it is a difficult and alarming political moment. You may be asking, How will art weather the storm?
To answer that question, you probably need to take stock of how art has navigated the political storms of the recent past. And there’s been a lot of debate about this recently, centered on the critic Dean Kissick’s long essay for Harper’s magazine from late last year, titled “The Painted Protest: How Politics Ruined Contemporary Art.”
Kissick first drew major attention as a chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in a column he wrote for the art…
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