One thing is true, quality alone does not guarantee a legacy any more than does a life of singular debauchery that may titillate the airport novel seeker. Some artists live on as a one-line synopsis while others have their position established in the greater narrative via relatives.
…..Pluto, Mars and an eclipse around my birthday promise a ‘march of destiny’, ‘awareness of creative power’ and ‘material success’. So be it! My life as an artist is about to change direction
Measuring the value of culture as simply a product and function of induced economic forces driven by prediction data is something else – perhaps the beginning of the end of artists having any control over their destinies unless they employ an influencer whose primary research tool is Tik Tok.
……training, the development of technique and time lead to art and great art. It isn’t the product of accident or indolence or short cuts. S
As Sir Humphrey Appleby once said in Yes, Minister, the much-acclaimed BBC satire, being in politics and being in government are not the same thing.
1722 Europe was characterised by financial shocks and stock market bubbles, a controversial vaccine keeping the barely-recognised smallpox virus at bay, Russia invading a neighbouring nation and the Versailles legacy of Louis XIV bankrupting France. Not much has changed it would seem. Three centuries later inflation, Covid, Putin and the excesses of royalty still dominate the news.