The Social Infrastructure That Permits Artists to Survive and Persist

I feel like historically speaking there are more people of your generation who can see the totality. Because I don't think artists of my generation were able to see that. The old socialist dreams were dying and all of the old commitments, the political commitments were completely obscured at this point. Guston's career is a little bit like that like he won in the casino. He works for WPA. But every time I look at what these people do they're able to like afford real estate in Woodstock which is totally unaffordable now. They have like a robust circle of friends still even if they're banished from the New York official art world. And it's really important to understand that social infrastructure