The major institutions aren’t going to suddenly embrace conservative artists just because Trump wins another term or because DEI funding dries up. Here’s why: • The Institutions Are Untouchable – Museums and top galleries operate on global capital. U.S. politics won’t shake their progressive foundations.
The Real Shift Will Be Outside the System – Forget MoMA. The future is in independent networks, crypto art markets, and collectors who care about craft, not politics. Right-wing artists won’t find salvation in the institutions. But they don’t need to.
As the dark forest theory of the internet materializes, legitimate right-wing art theses will likely find their audience through decentralized platforms rather than institutional gatekeepers — the same pattern that applies to any creative work locked out of centralized curatorial systems. discovery editorialThe Outliers Who Made It Old Masters & 20th Century Icons • Caravaggio (1571–1610) – The Vatican’s favorite bar brawler. Deeply Catholic, patronized by reactionary elites. • Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) – Revolutionary painter turned Napoleon’s PR machine. • Winston Churchill (1874–1965) – Yes, that Churchill. His paintings sell for millions. • Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) – Surrealism’s rogue monarchist. Admired Franco, loved capitalism, excommunicated by the left. • Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) – The visual poet of American patriotism, dismissed as kitsch by critics.
