Is Art Good or Bad? The Strange Impact of Art on Society

We keep talking about everything important happening around art because art itself is boring.

There are different ways to think about art because things are complicated.
You can be upset that artists don’t look for regular jobs and help reduce the unemployment rate, but at the same time admire the fact that they create jobs for others — also lowering the unemployment rate.

For example, you can complain about how many canvases and how much paint an artist uses to create pointless works, but you can’t help admiring it when, once in a while, a masterpiece appears.

Art always does something good.
But also something bad.

For example, in Ukraine, art destroyed the class of male artists because, according to the government, men should fight with guns, not brushes.
But at the same time, art helped women artists live, create and find their place in society without being controlled by men.

Even Pope Francis couldn’t decide whether art was something good or something bad…

“Art educates us to a gaze that is not possessive, not objectifying, but also not indifferent or superficial. Art educates us to a contemplative gaze. Artists are in the world, but they are called to go beyond it.”

Said Pope Francis, and then…

…art continued to be both a source of inspiration and a cause of confusion for many.

After the Pope, who talked about the importance of AI porn culture, European researchers started talking about the benefits of culture and art.

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds

But now it is official: consuming culture is good for your health and wellbeing – and generates £8bn a year worth of improvements in people’s quality of life and higher productivity.

Consuming culture and taking part in creative pursuits such as painting brings individuals worth an average £1,000 a year.

For example, over-65s who took drawing classes every week for three months at their local museum, in an initiative called “Thursday at the museum”, created a financial dividend of on average £1,310 each from going to see their GP less and feeling better about their lives.

“We can value those impacts in terms of reduced costs to the NHS, increased productivity at work and improved quality of life.” It may even help postpone the onset of dementia.

British researchers found that culture can help save money because making or experiencing art may improve people’s wellbeing.

The only problem is that if you’re just looking at art but not buying mine, the artist will once again find himself depressed somewhere.

Now artists will probably also be blamed for healthcare workers losing their jobs because, soon enough, they’ll be as unnecessary as artists.

Art is to blame for everything.
This isn’t about my mother, thankfully.
But it’s sad that it’s about someone’s.

And even worse that art is somehow to blame for it…
Art is to blame for the ghetto, where people who lived their comfortable ghetto lives are now being pushed out by gentrification.

Art is to blame for people having to work more to make corporations richer because their productivity has increased.

When Elon Musk looks like an idiot again, art is also to blame.
Art is to blame for everything good and bad.

And that’s good — because at least we don’t blame artists for everything, both good and bad.

...your worst artist and best friend,

hEhe and my contemporary art criticism

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