The art world is not a racket because the majority of people have no cash stake in it. They can see what they want for free or for a small ticket fee and they don't need to look at what they don't like and they certainly don't need to buy it, except for the paltry sums (lowest in civilized world) that go to public art via taxes.
If artists simply catered to the never-to-be-defined public taste, they'd not be artists. They'd be porn world sellers because that's where the biggest amount of mass entertainment dollars go. So stop troubling artists and the artworld with all this nonsense and ask the porn people if they're aiding society or whatever it is you think is important. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 11, 2012 4:26:22 PM Subject: Re: "The dealer brand often becomes a substitute for, and certainly a reinforcement of, aesthetic judgment." On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:51 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:03 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The Dealer. >> Yessir, this car, ain't she a creampuff? Been pampered by a little old >> schoolteacher, since day one. And what a classic! You ain't gonna find >> one of >> these here beauties....look at them tires. Like new. And inside, it still >> smells fresh. That schoolmarm only drove it to church and back. You >> wanna test >> drive? It won't be be here another day! The best I've had for a long >> time... I >> mean its' the best of the best. >> > > - I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. > > Al Capone > Hasn't the art world become just another racket?: - A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. Smedley Butler
