The control over Western Art and its evolutionary demise: White men.
That’s me [ Peter Breen ] but I sincerely hope only guilty by association.
I would like to think that we at Jugglers Art Space have been, for nearly 20 years – yes next year it’s 20 years – outside the main stream, facilitating core human creativity in multi modal applications of some terrific and good art and some not so good art with a range of folks giving it their best, their very best.
Some have gone on to become very well known, some have put their pencils in the bottom draw and others just keep making.

Others in the safe havens of corporate and government enclaves tick or cross our applications for funding and occasionally “borrow” a working idea for their own badging. That’s the way it works in a world of economic measurable outcomes, partly divorced from the wonder of the core creative human spirit.

“How Art Became Irrelevant: A chronological survey of the demise of art,” the essay’s central claim is that “while the fine arts can survive a hostile or ignorant public, or even a fanatically prudish one, they cannot long survive an indifferent one. And that is the nature of the present Western response to art, visual and otherwise: indifference.” There are lots of flaws with this argument, as well as its supporting evidence. But besides greatly overstating art’s demise, the conclusion rests heavily on artists who are primarily white men. “

The Most Relevant Art Today Is Taking Place Outside the Art World