The fine art market is just as incentive-driven as everything else & its incentives are very, very weird. Fame is the key mechanism by which your assets appreciate. Taste-makers pick the winners. Not surprising at all that beyond some baseline level of talent, the network is king
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Yes, and that's beautiful!! Yet what the article / research found was that having more friends (social skills?) counted more than creativity / talent. To me this is super interesting - and would love to know to what degree this is only true in subjective fields like art.
I'm mostly familiar with such groups in science so if you have recs, would love to read!
But re: article how much do you see that apply in more objective fields ~ science/tech?
That isn’t what it found, though? The nodes were all successful artists. It’s not clear that the most famous had more friends in general, just that they had more connections to other successful artists & more *groups* of successful artists (delineated geographically)
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Reminds me of an interesting essay by Sándor Weöres where he looked at poets who were sociable (nice, going to readings, making friends) and those who were more introverted --- as in personality being more important than talent in some cases. Will look it up, was long time ago.
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Quote too long but see parts of it here: https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1102671585935269894?s=19 … I have an urge now to go back and read about Gauguin
He was in this tight circle and then left (for Tahiti) so also an interesting edge case!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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