I don't remember seeing this linked before this topic. Listened it and liked! First I was wondering what the hell, "... the state of Finnish politics", but luckily you don't really get any of it here. So if thinking there could be lame dayly politics, not much of it here.
I think Lehrers analysis about decline of art world & art business is quite interesting. I guess same applies on many fields of "collecting" things. He does agree that financial troubles is the one thing, but his view on collectors simply being less interested now due reasons he mentions there could be indeed strong element. It makes one think things such as all this collectors garbage that is being produced for "collectors market". Sure, anything from vintage toys and rare records of the past, might remain "collectible", but the later days gimmick business unlikely so. Like the days when comic book publishers tried all the moves to make alternative covers, collectibles made for sake of collectibles, and big part of people were instantly hugely critical about it. Just like... there is something about 80's color vinyl LP. You don't know how many were made. When exactly and so on. It is completely different kind of thing, than some poser black metal band issues 5 different color vinyls of their already worthless album. There is no small enough limitation to make it "kult record". Idea of hand numbered item and throwing extra sticker ain't helping out. Garbage is garbage. In field of art, my assumption is, that there must be certain number of creators who has very similar approach. I was listening to one of finnish artists do discussion about "marketing" and "selling art". I was repulsed by just about everything I was hearing. Whatever I originally liked in her work, was now very hard to be excited. It is curious situation and also perhaps matter that may be discussed in artworld, but I would assume there must be quite a difference in something like buying hand numbered inkjet prints that floods the online galleries vs. that was somehow more... exclusive? Not like some some sort of lame sneaker business, where you got imbeciles waiting in cue for "rare sneakers" and you want nothing to do with that sort of population.
