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Which can be more important to New York City's market, the gleaming corporate and business office--or the grungy rock team that launches the best new rings? If you said "office," reconsider. In The Warhol Market, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative market sectors like fashion, skill, and music drive the market of New York as much as--if no more than--finance, real property, and legislations. And these creative market sectors are fueled by the public life that whirls surrounding the clubs, galleries, music locations, and fashion shows where creative people meet, network, exchange ideas, complete judgments, and placed the trends that form popular culture.
The implications of Currid's discussion are far-reaching, and not just for New York. Urban policymakers, she suggests, never have only very seriously underestimated the importance of the social economy, nonetheless they have didn't recognize that it depends upon a vibrant creative social landscape. They haven't realized, quite simply, the social, social, and economic combine that Currid calls the Warhol market.
With stunning first-person reporting about New York's creative landscape, Currid needs the audience into the town spaces where the social and economical lives of creativeness merge. The book has interesting original interviews with a lot of New York's important creative information, including fashion designers Zac Posen and Diane von Furstenberg, performers Ryan McGinness and Futura, and associates of the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
The economics of skill and culture in New York and other cities has been greatly misinterpreted and underrated. The Warhol Market explains how the cultural market works-and why it is vital to all great cities.
