[-empyre-] corporate art intervention

[catherine liu]

I would recommend Chin-Tao Wu's Privatising Culture: Corporate Art 
Intervention since the 1980s  to understand how Corporate Sponsorship 
of Public and Semi-Public art institutions has shaped the ways in 
which corporate actors create value in the art world.

Wu analyzes what happened in Saatchi's relationship to the National 
Gallery during the era of Thatcher and the changes in the latter's 
exhibiton program that followed.

Neoliberalism has its aesthetics and is always creating institutional 
change to promote those aesthetics, although we can't say that the 
aesthetics of neoliberalism is our biggest problem!