From the Boston Globe: How to start an art revolution.
The wishful thinking and the practical solutions both tend to focus on New York, the center of the American art world, whose high-rent lifestyle and fast-paced market can be as deflating as they are seductive. Artists talk optimistically of changing the city, and they talk about fleeing to some cheaper, more isolated place — upstate, maybe, or back to their hometowns. And they often wonder, sometimes out loud, if there isn’t another option — somewhere that offers a similar richness of community and culture, at a safer distance from a demanding and capricious market.
It might sound strange to say it, but Boston could very well become that place.
