Epis.#287: Can art workers organize?

<p>Artist, writer and art world worker Robin Kasier-Schatzlein talks with Michael Shaw and several listeners in the podcast's latest Virtual Cafe. Robin talks about his 'mini-memoir' from The New Republic titled "The Artist Isn't Dead: Eulogies for the creative class are premature. <em>Art</em> workers can organize—and survive," partially a book review of Shannon Clark's "The Making of The American Creative Class: New York’s Culture Workers and Twentieth-century Consumer Capitalism," and partly an introduction to Robin. In the Conversation via the Cafe, which features several listeners in the Q&A, Robin expands on his own experience being an artist, a writer (he has a <a href= "https://robks.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4fcfd5de82a2cb063cd224cff&id=3e33862612" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">newsletter</a>, a <a href="https://twitter.com/robinsreport" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">twitter</a> feed, and a <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18720283" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">Patreon</a> page all worth checking out), and working in the art world as a preparator, and organizing with his colleagues at MoMA PS1, where he's the shop steward.</p>