Robert Storr, former MoMA curator and 2007 director of the Venice Bienniale (not to mention one of NY Mag's "Art World Influentials") lectures at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis tomorrow night at 6pm. The topic? "What to Do About Art When the Art World Gets the Jitters":
"Just a year ago it seemed that the sky was the limit for the art market and all systems were 'go' for the expansion of the contemporary art world's public and private infrastructure. Then the music stopped. What lies ahead for the art public now that the money is gone, and what lies ahead for art?"
It is, at least for those who love art, a pretty jittery question. ArtsJournal's daily newsletter is sparser than ever, and the majority of the the stories are about various arts groups' financial woes; just today, there was an L.A. Times piece on how artists have a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the country (with a lovely photo of Oliver Twist - sheesh). They also linked to Bloomberg's story on shrinking endowments, and a choreographer's proposal to allow artists to run Wall Street. Storr may be one of the few people who can describe in any detail where the the art world may be headed, whether it be standing in bread lines, forming a Wall Street triage unit, or using this crisis to create somethng amazingly new and revoultionary. --Stefene Russell
