What if, ten years from now, artists will have become as marginal and anachronistic as blacksmiths$150 What if the main players in the cultural world are on the brink of extinction, not about to disappear like prehistoric animals, but worse - submitting to the status quo and absorbed by a marketplace that increasingly devalues true artistic work$151 Award-winning filmmaker and sommelier Jonathan Nossiter considers our current cultural crisis and offers a solution inspired by the rebellious, innovative figures transforming the way we produce and consume wine. This new generation of artisans, working closely with the earth to create exceptional natural wines, has assumed the role of dissenters that artists have abandoned, and we should look to them in order to revitalise contemporary art.
