https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/matt-bolton/is-art-really-to-blame-for-gentrification

"You would be hard-pressed to come up with a more New Labour idea if you tried: industrial decline and class conflict solved by turning the entire country into Islington."

"The temptation to conclude that art is useless a mode of critique in a post-Fordist 'creative economy' is strong, but must be resisted."

an old one but a good one 
http://prolapsarian.tumblr.com/post/54765885344/a-letter-to-goldsmiths-art-students-on-capitalism

"These artworks see capital with the eye of a luxury consumer. They refuse to acknowledge necessity under capitalism. “Capitalism” for them is a bad choice, not something that you’re is compelled to reproduce because you’re hungry. It complains about capitalism just as it might about a scratched DVD being delivered from Amazon, only to cling to the scratch because at least it proves the thesis, just as the consumer clings to evidence in order to validate an insurance claim. But just like all insurance, all that is secured is the continuance of the present state of things."


thanks n.p

https://www.opendemocracy.net/shinealight/g4s-securing-whose-world