Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based artist who graduated from Columbia’s School of the Arts in 2004. Fischer has often focused on alternative and public space as subject for his works, and so, this past October, he instigated the “Occupy Museums” movement. Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, the group hoped to both create awareness about and fundamentally change “the pyramid schemes” on which “the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%” operate, according to the movement’s manifesto.
In a recent issue of The Eye, Ravenna Koenig wrote on this intersection between activism and the art world. Check out her interview with Fischer after the jump, in which they discuss artists' salaries, private wealth, and where exactly, it all went wrong.
