By not providing enough opportunities to such artists to develop work within the community, what the South Asian community is experiencing is an art-drain, where many artists are finding homes outside, distancing themselves from the 'model minority' ideal.
Philanthropy, the Tories' golden bullet for the arts, would drain away: donors want to enhance success, not offer rescue packages.
After decades of art market draining by an ever-expanding constituency, great Impressionist and early-20th-century avant garde paintings have all but deserted the auction arena.
But back in 1990, a 19-year-old dude known as Predator became the leader of Sydney's Clan faction, and went on to write a sort of manifesto on the art of "draining".
But back in 1990, a 19-year-old dude known as Predator became the leader of Sydney's Clan faction, and went on to write a sort of manifesto on the art of "draining".
Matisse agreed with him that Jazz – generally acknowledged today to be one of the 20th-century's greatest art books – had drained the life out of his cutouts.
Dismissive of "mere charm," Feininger began to drain his art of his wonderful figures, urban detail and keyed-up palette and to push toward a sophomorically mystical fusion of light, form and space.
Since the earthiness of the Dutch temperament did not mix well with the Italian tendency toward idealization, the result was an eclecticism that drained Dutch art of much of its vitality.
1934 — Accused by Dean Hawkes of stuffing dormitory tenth-floor shower-drains with art materials and flooding ninth floor (not guilty)." And the power of the list as bulwark against chaos is poignantly suggested by a chart of sorts typed up by Grant Wood in January 1931.
In its stead, a shard of the famous Paris art museum has been drained of color, as if the translucent panes have become some sort of living Instagram filter.
The report, commissioned in November, helps to do that in unprecedented detail, showing that spending on the arts is far from a drain on public resources.
