All The Rage? We Need To Make Room Again For Anger In Art

Hanno Rauterberg | WorldCrunch | 21st September 2024

This writer seems riled up because he thinks the art world, increasingly, is not. Have artists become too well-behaved, like “dental technicians”? If so, is it because of the money sloshing around in contemporary art? Or is it that today’s big issues, beginning with AI, are so complicated that bafflement is a more likely response than anger? “The urge to always be unpredictable seems to be gone for good; today the art scene is focusing on remixing, remaking and recycling.”