Blouin Art Market Info is reporting this morning on the effect of Brexit in the world’s art market. The opinions cited range from ‘unclear’ to ‘business as usual’. It is difficult to read into these responses anything approaching the ‘remain’ camp’s sky is falling, immediate and gruesome end of life as we know it predictions.
What we’ve seen, and what soon to be former Prime Minister David Cameron certainly should have seen, is a desire on the part of a surprising majority of the electorate to be shed of yet more government, and a desire for a pared-back government to be- what a surprise!- responsive to and working in consonance with its constituency.
With European financial and currency markets taking an initial dive, and then fairly quickly bouncing back, the casualties amidst all of this appear predominantly to be entrenched politicos in Great Britain, and, if Brexit is contagious, which seems likely, there should deservedly be amongst most senior European government leaders, and all Brussels functionaries, a rapid movement toward updating their CV’s and finding other work before being turned out en masse.