Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19

DAY 70: RESULTS OF A SURVEY 

Singapore

A recently published survey has listed artists as the least essential workers during the pandemic.

Really!? As we all are experiencing, the globe is in crisis (including massive protests). As history has proved, in times of unrest and upheaval, artists make critical art that conveys complex emotions and controversies of the moment. The artist’s role is “essential.” The survey was conducted in Singapore, but one must ponder, if it had been done in the U.S., would the results be similar?

Art in this weaving:

Banksy, Instagram posting, 2020; Keith Haring, Ignorance = Fear, 1989; Barbara Kruger, We Don’t Need Another Hero, 1986; Yayoi Kusama, Happening at Statue of Liberty, 1958; Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937; Diego Rivera, The Uprising, 1931; Kara Walker, African‘t, 1996; Kehinde Wiley, Sleep, 2008

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