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Crunch Launch Night feat. special guest Ben Lewis

Ben Lewis, art critic and journalist, sets the contemporary art world to rights

Is the art world being run "like a cult"? Watch the full talk here and post your comments on the crunch webforum

Be introduced to the all the debates, talks and forums taking place over the crunch weekend

How are top London art galleries responding to the challenge of recession?

Is this the end of big, white open spaces? What are galleries going to look like in 2009?

crunch.art in a new era puts the question to the curator of Standpoint Gallery Fiona Mc Donald, independent gallerist and former economist Cynthia Corbett and crunch. guest curators Naomi Pearce and Gavin Ramsey as Saatchi Online contributor and writer Anthony Haden Guest asks the pertinent questions and puts the panel to questions from the crunch audience.

How will artists market themselves at a time of a disappearing market?

Creativity commingling with financial gain has long carried a stigma but have will the recession put pay to that?

Watch Joe La Placa discuss the socio-economics of the art marketplace with fellow artist Wolfe Lenkiewicz as they foray into Marxism, Italian Futurism and whether it is realistic to resist adopting a commercial approach to the art business.

Art has been dominated by a few individuals but will the economic crisis allow for the many under the surface to rise up?

Should we be looking at the recession as a valuable moment, one that will re-define the art scene?

Have artists been given the gift of time to reassess their core values as they see the demand for work subside?

Hear Patrick Hughes (artist) as he joins Eleanor Lindsay Fynn (artist), Charles Thomson (stuckist and artist) discuss the strange times that artists find themselves in 2009 with Bruce Milar of the Art Newspaper.

What will art look like in 2009?

Who are the YBA’s of the future and what new movements will be born from the challenging months ahead?

Caravans, hotels, open spaces? Where will art reside in the future if galleries fall foul of the recession?

Money has become the universal metaphor for cultural expression and legacy - how far has this ideology shaped where art is today?

Hear the acclaimed author Iain Sinclair as he discusses the durability of art and how art is to carry on thriving in a world of diminishing resources

Young British Artists (YBA’s) have dominated the art scene for the past decade – but will recession put the nail in the coffin for the YBA’s and damage their pop-conceptual legacy?

Have we seen the end of neon signs, unmade beds and breasts covered with fruit?

Hilary Lawson (artist and philosopher) puts the questions to the artists’ Jane Simpson, Adam Dant and formidable art critic Ben Lewis

Film courtesy of Lasco Atkins. Atkins is a graduate of the London Film School. His latest film short has just been accepted into the Berlin Film Festival 2009.
He also has done a foundation course for Film & Video at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design (Farnham). Lasco prefers to light mostly when not making his own shorts, but is efficient at camera operating, sound recording, boom operating, gripping, stills photos, etc. More recently he has been editing trailers for a feature film on top of crewing for the project already. One of his shorts (Adjudicator) has also just been accepted into the Berlin Film Festival.