The least powerful people in the art world

*Hey, as art world listicles go, this is pretty good.

http://hyperallergic.com/348594/the-20-most-powerless-people-in-the-art-world-2016-edition/

3. Artists in DIY Space: Since the advent of the modern age — and probably before — artists in the West have been forced to live in largely undesirable areas of cities, particularly places where rents are cheap (though let’s not forget that this is all part of a larger process of gentrification). Then a December 2 fire killed 36 people at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, and a new wave of fears spread among those with unconventional living and working arrangements, particularly people in DIY spaces. Add to this a string of far-right attacks on “left-leaning” artists in the form of police complaints (see reports in Brokelyn and Thump) and crackdowns from city officials across the country, including in Baltimore, and things just got a lot more difficult for artists on the margins….