Capital and its Discontents: Panel Discussion April 12

Loren Munk, "Bushwick Map (study)" (2010-2012), 42 x 36 inches, oil on linen.

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James writes: 

Please join me as I host the next Bogart Salon on April 12 on "Capital and its Discontents: Art, Money, Real Estate, and the Changing Face of Bushwick." My illustrious panelists are Ann Fensterstock (collector, arts patron, historian), Francis Greenburger (collector, founder of Time Equities), Loren Munk (artist), William Powhida (artist), and Natalia Sacasa (Senior Director, Luhring Augustine).

We are now taking RSVPs for this free event. Add your name to the list here.

Our conversation will be Bushwick specific while also attempting to take on some larger themes, in particular the relationship of money and real estate to the culture of art.

There’s little question that new capital--in the form of new collectors, new galleries, higher rents, etc--is now flowing into the once isolated artistic neighborhood of Bushwick. How could these changes play out, and how should Bushwick’s various stakeholders prepare for the change?

I'll have a wide range of voices on the panel to discuss these developments. In addition to the present, I am interested in hearing from those who can speak to what has happened historically as New York’s other arts neighborhoods (Soho, Chelsea, Lower East Side, Williamsburg) have gentrified.

Do you have a question you'd like to ask the panel? I want to hear from you. Simply direct your comments to @jamespanero & #bogartsalon on twitter.

Following the panel, Kianga Ellis and Trent Morse will continue and expand upon the discussion by leading a three-day event called "War Room." 

With special thanks to Peter Hopkins of Bogart Salon and Ted Hovivian of 56 Bogart. 

CAPITAL AND ITS DISCONTENTS: A DISCUSSION GROWS IN BUSHWICK. POST PANEL UPDATE HERE!

Alistair Horne: Commune Plus One "excellent and provocative piece"

James writes:

In a thread of smart comments, Sir Alistair Horne writes in with praise for Commune Plus One (comment #30):

I was exhilarated to read the excellent and provocative piece by James Panero on Occupied Wall Street and the Paris Commune. And of course also delighted to be singled out for mention.

This note has particular meaning. I was inspired to write "Commune Plus One" after reading Sir Alistair's book, which in addition to presenting a penetrating history of those 72 days in Paris in 1871, also draws a connection to the student uprisings of 1968.

Sir Alistair tells me that his book The Fall of Paris, The Siege, and the Commune 1870-1871 is still in print from Penguin after forty years.

Ross Douthat: The Decadent Left

James writes:

Ross Douthat quotes reliable sources in his interesting Op-Ed for the New York Times on Occupy Wall Street. Thanks for the shoutout, Ross!

The O.W.S. protesters, on the other hand, haven’t even settled on concrete political objectives. As two of the movement’s more perceptive conservative critics — Matt Continetti in The Weekly Standard and James Panero in The New Criterion — have said, many protesters seemed more interested in founding a kind of Paris Commune or Oneida Community in Zuccotti Park than in actually participating in public-policy debates.

From "The Decadent Left."