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A challenge for the art world - Lien - 20-04-23
As an art history student I regret that my interest for artworks from the past is not shared by my friends. While traveling with friends, I often found myself trying to convince them to join me to the museum. However, I found out that not only my friends aren't interested, but youngsters in general lost the connection with art works form the past. Older people seem to have more time and interest in art pieces telling stories from century's ago. For some reason they still feel connected with those pieces, while we (and by we I mean youngsters) are to busy with other stuff. I guess this is a problem the art world should address. I feel like it is the job of museums and other cultural institutions to convince youngsters what's the relevance of art. If not, the art world won't be supported anymore by our future governors. This might seems like overreaction, but of course I know that a lot of people are still busy with art on different levels, which is great. Still I feel like the importance of art should be felt by many more people to keep the art world alive. For example, as an artist or even as an art historian it is difficult to survive in a job which is only art-orientated. I regret this very much and I also fear my own future because of this. But maybe now is exactly the right time to show what art is capable of? Maybe these corona times are an opportunity for the cultural institutions to show the world what they're worth?
RE: A challenge for the art world - Els - 20-04-25
The European commission decided on 26-11-2019 to increase the budget of the Creative Europe programme with 17%. The different funding schemes encourage the audiovisual, cultural and creative sector to operate across Europe, to reach new audiences, to develop the skills needed in the digital age and to reach audiences in other countries for safeguarding cultural and linguistic diversity.
The last sentence made me think about the question "Are cultures disappearing because of globalization and does multiculturality evolve to one culture? Especially youngsters seem to embrace innovations coming from across the world rather than traditions. Personally, I believe that art and culture is not something that we have to learn from others but rather a kind of expression and that it is very relevant to understand the expression of others (who lived in the past or who live in another country). Of course we won't call every self-expression artistic. But when an expression is or was artistic, I think we shouldn't ban it to the art world but rather integrate it in our daily lives for instance by printing it on a cup, bag or t-shirt without losing respect for the artist.
RE: A challenge for the art world - Majfek - 23-03-31
globalization and multiculturalism are inevitably moving towards a single culture
