What of the older artist who is left out of this process? As one becomes older one’s own authenticity becomes of great comfort. In the words of my old friend Bobby Beers, “After 30 years you either made the art or you didn’t. It is not a question of being promising, of being talented or of being precocious. Art is one of the things one becomes better at with age.” As Quentin Crisp once cautioned me “Time is kind to the non conformist.
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the process in question is funding and markets that privilege new and emerging artists over established ones in the UK. the tendency is generalizable as markets everywhere seek to commodify and consume the new new in order to keep the wheels turning and the gears churning.