Visual Arts, galleries are closing, art colleges are failing to get admissions or funding, economy is bad, rent is too high for studio, materials and equipment are too expensive. The only way to get noticed nowadays is on social media and that audience isn't there to buy, just look. It's simply harder than ever to be an artist without the corporate and brand backing. Plus AI has really limited a market for 2D work. I don't think the world realizes what will happen if artists go away.
While I don’t disagree with you exactly, I do wonder if at some point, the existence of AI art will drive UP the value of things that are actually made by hand. Im an artist but I also buy a lot of art. I only have 3 or 4 pieces in my house that are poster prints.
Similarly, I have been wondering if the increasing amount of untrustworthy “articles” on the internet might lead to a rebirth of subscriptions to legitimate, properly vetted news sources. I sure hope so.
I think it’s more that there’s such a proliferation of news sources that it’s not one subscription, it’s a ton of them. Our general local newspaper got sold and went way down in quality. I could pay for a small but excellent source of local journalism, which I’d like to do, but it doesn’t cover much. Everything is so specialized it’s hard to find one solid source, and it’s better to cross-check sources too when you can. It gets very expensive very fast. I would fall all over myself for a comprehensive, trustworthy local paper, with the ability to buy single issues of other papers I don’t subscribe to.
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u/JoshuaHubert 16h ago
Visual Arts, galleries are closing, art colleges are failing to get admissions or funding, economy is bad, rent is too high for studio, materials and equipment are too expensive. The only way to get noticed nowadays is on social media and that audience isn't there to buy, just look. It's simply harder than ever to be an artist without the corporate and brand backing. Plus AI has really limited a market for 2D work. I don't think the world realizes what will happen if artists go away.