Truth at Last

I have discovered a blog that uncovers the dirty little secret about the Art world. It is, contrary to its trumpeted 'radicalism' one of the most constrained and politically correct environments on the planet. And heaven help those who stand outside of its proscribed correctness.
The blogs latest offering makes a good point re: those who have a more traditional approach, as I do, we end up abandoning the pain of the artists life to start looking for a 'real job' and everyone suffers as a result.
I would echo Matt's call to conservative minded people and company's to support those who refuse to buckle under because the arts are a very necessary and an important field of conflict in the culture war.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Why conservatives shouldn't abandon the arts

There's no doubt that there's a lot of seething hostility towards conservative artists, and this is why so many of them buckle under the pressure and create only safe, green, right-on artworks, or run away screaming and get real jobs.

But it's not just the PC brigade that's to blame for this sad situation. As this pithy column by Sam Guzman argues, many conservative institutions, organizations and publications have pretty much abandoned the arts. This is a real shame, because art can be an extremely powerful and persuasive way of making an ideological point.