What Ever Happened To The New Cacophony?

In the wake of the art contemporary art markets’ most tumultuous year, critics and curators are scrambling to make sense of what’s left and comb through the wreckage to find morsels of legitimate art. What I suspect will happen is a much needed correction of the market to weed out the over-represented and unoriginal artists who have turned Chelsea into a graveyard.

The correction is inevitable but the question of who will make the cut remains a constant source of tension between the art market and the powers that be.  Lately, I’ve found myself making lists - on notebooks, scraps of paper, napkins – with my predictions and every time I’m amazed at just how much art has been made in the last ten years and how much of it has been complete crap. But through it, there have been a number of legitimate movements that I’m confident will see it into the history books and in some cases already have; artists and artworks that are pushing art forward

Looking through my notes there are some keepers: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Olafur Eliasson, Urs Fischer; artists who have consistently been on the edge of what is new and relevant. But for…