Art can breathe again
O YOU REMEMBER HOW IT FELT TO BE ALIVE ON NOV. 9, 2016? If you spent the day in a big U.S. city where overwhelmingly liberal masses lived crushed up against each other with no room to escape the ambient mood, you might never forget it: residents trudging around silent, sleepless, dead-eyed, as though something had siphoned off all their serotonin. After the initial shock, conversations turned toward potential silver linings: Hey, wasn’t adversity supposed to be good for art? Certainly Trump would deliver plenty of fodder for late-night hosts and punk bands. Shortly after the election, magazine art critic Jerry Saltz wrote, “Trump’s victory is a crucible of possibility for a new generation, who will do what artists have always done
