Showing: Beyond The Streets (London)
about 14 months ago (02/22/2023)
Showing: Beyond The Streets (London) « Arrested Motion The art establishment has a less than distinguished history when it comes to embracing artists who fall outside of its comfortably familiar linear narrative of western art. Impressionism was a derogatory name bestowed by the art critic Louis Leroy and the fabled Salon des Refusés exhibition of work by the movement’s most prominent figures was comprised of pieces rejected by the the Académie des Beaux-Arts’s annual exhibition in Paris. With stylewriting – or graffiti, as its early detractors called it – history has repeated itself and, aside from a few notable exceptions, art institutions have largely overlooked what’s grown into the largest participation art movement that we’ve seen.