Who Runs the Artworld

Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics examines the economics and mythologies of today’s globalartworld. It unmasks the complex web of relationships that now exist among high-profilecurators, collectors, museum trustees and corporate sponsors, and the historicand ongoing complicity between the art and money markets.The bookexamines alternative models being deployed by curators and artists influencedby the 2008 global financial crisisand the international socio-political Occupy movement, with a particular focuson a renewed activism by artists. This activism is coupled with aninstitutional and social critique led by groups such as Liberate Tate, thePrecarious Workers Brigade and Strike Debt.Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics brings together a diverse range of thinkers who draw on thedisciplines of art theory, social sciences and cultural economics, andcuratorship and the lived experience of artists. The contributors to this bookare, in their respective contexts, working at the forefront of these compellingissues.