On Monday, The Economist published their perspective on Indian Art, which I picked up from the Wooster Collective.
Then I went on to read a few short articles about the emptiness of interdisciplinary work in academia/art before I came across the website of a Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT. I had sincere moments of delight when I came across his art:economics photograph (left) and browsed his teaching page.
Ariely’s blog links to The Significant Elements Project – an experiment in the value of objects. The curator asks a writers to compose a creative work for an object and then sells them on ebay for 1, 2, or even 6 thousand percent more than the original purchase price. These objects have clearly read W.J.T. Mitchell/Sculpture Center’s Objects’ Bill of Rights
“art and economics” continues to play for me… but that probably has more to do with how I choose my friends. One thing my friends and their friends have taught me is that most of the world doesn’t know what an artist is OR what an economist does. E.G. We don’t all paint, but we use venn diagrams all the time (Adobe made that certain). On the other side, most economists can answer your questions about our current economic “crisis” about as well as I can paint. The many perspectives of art or economics is a re-curing conversation in my small town and big academy life.
…of course it’s still “playing” for me. But is this interdisciplinary conversation worth having? Temporary Services launched Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics with a column called “Personal Economies,” which will hopefully 
compliment my browsing of Tyler Cowan’s book “Create Your Own Economy.” Is the reading of both something that just makes sense for my dinner table or is it worth looking for a more efficient and resonant dialogue in the intersection of art and economics?
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replaying art and economics
On Monday, The Economist published their perspective on Indian Art, which I picked up from the Wooster Collective.
Then I went on to read a few short articles about the emptiness of interdisciplinary work in academia/art before I came across the website of a Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT. I had sincere moments of delight when I came across his art:economics photograph (left) and browsed his teaching page.
Ariely’s blog links to The Significant Elements Project – an experiment in the value of objects. The curator asks a writers to compose a creative work for an object and then sells them on ebay for 1, 2, or even 6 thousand percent more than the original purchase price. These objects have clearly read W.J.T. Mitchell/Sculpture Center’s Objects’ Bill of Rights
“art and economics” continues to play for me… but that probably has more to do with how I choose my friends. One thing my friends and their friends have taught me is that most of the world doesn’t know what an artist is OR what an economist does. E.G. We don’t all paint, but we use venn diagrams all the time (Adobe made that certain). On the other side, most economists can answer your questions about our current economic “crisis” about as well as I can paint. The many perspectives of art or economics is a re-curing conversation in my small town and big academy life.
…of course it’s still “playing” for me. But is this interdisciplinary conversation worth having? Temporary Services launched Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics with a column called “Personal Economies,” which will hopefully
compliment my browsing of Tyler Cowan’s book “Create Your Own Economy.” Is the reading of both something that just makes sense for my dinner table or is it worth looking for a more efficient and resonant dialogue in the intersection of art and economics?