From Switzerland we have the news that something new will be tried out in the canton of Neuenburg, located in the Francophone part of the country with the beautiful title “Gross region Espace Mittelland”. CHF 200,000 are invested “to promote the well -being of their residents through culture” – by prescription: A doctor may now prescribe a museum visit to its patient. With similar intentions, the European Union spends around 3.5 million euros for the “Art on Prescription” project, in which people suffered from mental stress receive an “art recipe” and can visit painting courses or museums for free. Social Prescript ”has been practicing for a long time – successful, as the initiators emphasize: According to the study“ Arts for Health and Wellbeing ”, the study creates movement and social exchange, even“ healthier nutrition ”creates the study as a subsequent effect. At a time when the cultural sector has to accept drastic cuts, it is certainly also a strategic wise to sew your own industry with the health sector and to provide astonishingly precise figures for the savings potential hidden in the “social prescription”: Send people with sick people to the museum, According to the study, this leads to exactly 37 percent fewer visits to the doctor, each euro invested will bring savings of up to four euros. Picasso instead of pills, Caravaggio instead of hospital? What remains of art is not to be done by the hand that a museum visit will bring you among people, you leave the house, experience something interesting, maybe see something impressively beautiful. Although not every work of art should have the construction effect that classicism already demanded from art. If you are a bit unstable, you should not be left alone with the “Bethlehemitic children’s murder” by Rubens as with Bruce Nauman’s video work “Anthro/Socio”, which shows a pitiful head. Could be described as shock therapy at most: it was almost an approval condition for the White Cube that breaks the visual habits shown there, questioned somewhat painfully. But the zeitgeist blows from different directions against this idea of art as a productive disruption. With the clearcut at the Kennedy-Center, Donald Trump has paved the way for a system-compliant building art in the sense of his “Golden Age”. More on the subject of Saying elsewhere, the new mild ones replace the old wild ones: the Hamburg Bucerius-Kunstforum offered in the one that has just come to an end Exhibition “Flowers Forever” YogaKurse, because yoga “how art connects and touches art and helps with conscious breathing” help “to discover your own creativity and lightness”. Mindfulness instead of action painting, back training instead of revolt: In a world in which the breaks with civil conventions and collateral take place in the field of politics, art apparently only remains the role of the healer.
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