Part 1: It Is 2022, and There Will Be No New Artists Please

Not a blue chip artist? Feel free to drop dead.

Keith Haring, painting Palladium backdrop Palladium night club, New York City. May 1985. Original photograph by ©Bernard Gotfryd. Sourced from the Library of Congress. Digitally manipulated by Allicette Torres

Hear ye! Hear ye! There are no new artists or innovative work that can be deemed bankable. The nostalgic re-reindexing of artists, excellent or mediocre, seems to be the reactionary method to maintain the cash flow in the art world during these Covid times. The corporate and blue chip art world easily kept their…