Contemporary art and the media

 Contemporary art and the media

--Pay attention to how contemporary art and artists are used and portrayed in TV programs and you will see how contemporary art is seen in contemporary society.

Writers and actors hawk their latest efforts on late night TV. Where are the visual artists?

--Pay attention to how contemporary art is used as a backdrop, a status indicator, a foil in TV commercials and how no one pays attention to it or comments on it.

--Pay attention to how absent any coverage there is of contemporary art in the news media, except perhaps wall murals in the background. 

--Pay attention to whom local news media care about. A professional artist in a lifetime will not get the airtime that a high school quarterback will.

--The voice of the contemporary artist seems to bounce around within the visual art community but never really escape.