[NetBehaviour] Taking the Protests to the Art World

[Joel Weishaus]

This is strange because the Art Market has been like this--an investment market for the rich--for centuries, and the only thing most artists did was try break into it.
In any case, this protest is a good thing for art, and I hope it spreads to the Art World, which is much larger than New York thinks it is.

-Joel  

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  Taking the Protests to the Art World

  By MELENA RYZIK

  The Occupy Wall Street movement took on the art world, sort of, this 
  week, with a splinter group, Occupy Museums. Convened on Thursday 
  evening through a Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr posts, about 20 people 
  made their way from the Museum of Modern Art to the New Museum to a 
  downtown gallery, protesting what they say is the conflation of art and 
  commerce, the snobbery of the art market and high ticket prices at 
  museums, which they called the “temples of the cultural elite.”

  http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/taking-the-protests-to-the-art-world/?smid=tw-artsbeat2&seid=auto 

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