Art is about friends
2019-03-07 02:50:39.446841+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Study Finds Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
Ingram and his colleague Mitali Banerjee, of HEC Paris, used MoMA’s findings to examine the role that creativity and social networks played for these artists, in relationship to the level of fame they achieved. In a 2018 paper, they relayed their findings—including that for successful artists, making friends may be more important than producing novel art.