#commodification

#commodification

SAN FRANCISCO - An inflatable giant with a cartoonish skull-and-crossbones head perches on the roof of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, like a car-lot tube man, advertising the exhibition KAWS: Family inside. The big balloon is various shades of gray, reminiscent of another large sculpture just a few blocks away on the Embarcadero Plaza, a 40-foot-tall naked woman fabricated from steel mesh.

Almost a quarter of all foster places in England are now provided by private equity-backed companies, leading to millions in profits at the expense of vulnerable children.

AI is perceived as an ideology that has engulfed the tech industry and parts of government, perpetuating systems of supremacy while masking its true implications.

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The mutual insurance model, while beneficial for policyholders, also intersected with the dark history of enslavement, demonstrating the complex roots of American insurance practices.

I think it has become more commodified. Nothing comes to my attention that would make me think that art has become anything other than a business.