“Gentrification is a weird thing. The old New York just seems to be disappearing.”
Nowadays, it seems as if the art world is completely dictated by the hierarchy of the white wall industry, being compartmentalized into prices and trends, tossed around by gallerists. Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring’s New York seems to have fallen victim to commercialized art spaces, wiped clean of anything that can be accepted as just art, rather than an Instagram photo or material item.
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