How Big Tech is Pushing Artists Out of Work
The pandemic has made life as an artist hard \u2014 real hard. Museums and studios have closed, live shows have been canceled and concerts have been pushed online. But according to William Deresiewicz, this is just the most recent act in a long, profound shift in the arts.
\n\nDeresiewicz, a former English professor at Yale University and author of \u201cThe Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech,\u201d says the digital age has devastated and demonetized the arts \u2014 whether that\u2019s music, videos, visual art or the written word. We\u2019re facing the loss of the moderately successful artist and \u201cyou can\u2019t have even the stars without an ecosystem that supports them,\u201d he says. So where does that leave us?