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The art market is breaking again. In 1947, six broke painters in Bombay showed us what artists do when the rooms that decide value fall apart.
You have probably felt it this year, even if you could not name it. The galleries are closing. Not the small ones you expected to struggle, but the ones that looked permanent. Long-running rooms in New York and Los Angeles and London, shutting their doors or pulling back to a single city, letting artists go in quiet emails.
If you are an artist, this is not abstract. It is the residency that didn't reopen its applications. The dealer who stopped answering. The slow understanding that the ladder you were told to climb has fewer rungs than it used to.
I want to tell you it is survivable, because it has been survived. Not by waiting for the rooms to right themselves. By artists deciding, together, to build a fairer floor to stand on. So let me take you to Bombay, in the winter of 1947 —
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