There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also going through travail to give birth to the messengers of power who are sent to prepare the way for the coming of the kingdom by preaching the gospel of the kingdom throughout the earth.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.