Don’t assume crowfunding is the saviour the art world needs – it’s not even the saviour we should want, says Jonathan Jones.
Crowdfunding is typical of our time, in that it is a universally acclaimed good thing that actually reveals many problems if you pause to think about it for a second or two.
Like trial by social media, sharing your life on Instagram and letting Apple choose your music for you, it depends on the fact that none of us actually have much time to think about its flaws – I, for instance, am too busy trying to break Apple Music by naming my music favourites as Wagner, Neil Young and the Muppets to worry about the fate of Tim Hunt.
But crowdfunding – aren’t the pitfalls obvious? And even if they were not, isn’t the quasi-religious hush that descends wherever it is invoked worrying in itself... Keep reading on The Guardian
Crowdfunding is typical of our time, in that it is a universally acclaimed good thing that actually reveals many problems if you pause to think about it for a second or two.
Like trial by social media, sharing your life on Instagram and letting Apple choose your music for you, it depends on the fact that none of us actually have much time to think about its flaws – I, for instance, am too busy trying to break Apple Music by naming my music favourites as Wagner, Neil Young and the Muppets to worry about the fate of Tim Hunt.
But crowdfunding – aren’t the pitfalls obvious? And even if they were not, isn’t the quasi-religious hush that descends wherever it is invoked worrying in itself... Keep reading on The Guardian