Instagrammable pop-ups are everywhere. What does that mean for art?

A new art installation appeared in cities all over the world. It is not designed to exhibit classic paintings or to collect impressive historical relics - it is designed to take pictures of Instagram

In the summer of 2018 alone, the color factory in New York, the egg house in Shanghai, the self-portrait museum in Los Angeles - the bar with the theme of pizza, sweets and rosé

They often call themselves like this, but these pop-ups are not actually art museums. However, they reflect the real change taking place in the museum world. In the era of Instagram, the exhibits are very good - this is reworking how the art is chosen and how the museum is designed.

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Since modern contemporary art galleries are in unlikely places anywhere - redundant seaside towns, depressed northern cities - does this really indicate that art has changed from elitists to populists? What? Does not everyone now know their thirst from their emin? Are not these huge galleries a comprehensive experience for all of us? Art itself is not elitism, it is recognition. Art is challenging, stimulating, thought made, difficult to understand, and so on. It can be popular, popular, commercial, noncommercial, abstract, representative or conceptual; it can appeal to the elite group.

I was shocked when I saw the Arctic movement poster game that first appeared in my Facebook feed! Although the competition of art seems to be meaningful, it is harmful for artists throughout history and is therefore dangerous for the (environmental) movement. The art contest is synonymous with free art. As a freelance artist, I have been asked to produce countless free arts over the past 8 years, but of course I am not alone in this fight. I have a prosperous art business, but I still see non-profit organizations' donations under occasional unpaid normative work, underestimated conceptual sketches, and horrible E-word: exposure "Will be received. For example, just last month, IBM asked my company to make a free mural for their event (prompt eyeroll and stock negotiation failure)