Where is art and the individual artist headed? post-postmodernism, metamodernism, pseudo-modernism...?

During times of crisis, like the global economic depression we are in right now, art tends to become more political. IMO political art is already making a comeback. Look at the Occupy protests: they are full of art. There is more art at an Occupy protest than there is at your local galleries. You could even consider the Occupy protests themselves as one big performance art piece, given that they do not have specific demands that they hope to enforce by means of their protesting. Occupy is protest for the sake of protest, just like l'art pour l'art, or art for art's sake. Another thing that happens in times of economic crisis is that a greater demand is placed on artists to make art that is serviceable and usable, instead of just contemplative. So you can expect a lot of artists to drop out of art and go into design or arts&crafts instead. Already there was an artist here at Yahoo Answers last week asking questions about using kitchen appliances in works of art. I couldn't answer that question, but I thought the question was typical in and of itself. I think there is a connection there with a few other questions I saw on Yahoo Answers about American 1950s vintage. I am guessing here, but I think that for a lot of younger people, there is something aesthetic, I would even say artistic, about 1950s imagery. For older people like myself, the 1950s represent repression, predictability and stuffiness, but for your generation it's probably an image of order, security and abundance, now forever lost. I don't think nostalgia is a very productive artistic methodology, but your generation obviously disagrees if the questions on Yahoo Answers are anything to go by. So, my three suggestions for you are: political art revival, usable art, nostalgia. Hope that helps, and don't forget to wear your petticoat ;-)

i know just what you mean, imthe same with my writing, i had no idea 'strict' writing poetry was till i started to try to be serious about it i think its worth learning some ofthe 'rules' but if its just something you dont wanna do, then stuff it oh i think lots of them do dissapear, either they conform or they dotn get accepted, its unfair but its just how it is i totally agree, it does take all the fun out of it, but thats what beuracracy is about, and sadly yip beracracy even has its mits in art i have no idea where its headed, other than doing what its doing now, ruining things, but it wont stay that way

i know just what you mean, imthe same with my writing, i had no idea 'strict' writing poetry was till i started to try to be serious about it i think its worth learning some ofthe 'rules' but if its just something you dont wanna do, then stuff it oh i think lots of them do dissapear, either they conform or they dotn get accepted, its unfair but its just how it is i totally agree, it does take all the fun out of it, but thats what beuracracy is about, and sadly yip beracracy even has its mits in art i have no idea where its headed, other than doing what its doing now, ruining things, but it wont stay that way