On Sep 8, 2012, at 12:35 AM, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote:

> So?  What's the message? Who can know what's in the heart of the art
audience.
> It's just another crap statement from someone outside of art who can't
> appreciate it.

Well, in this case, it's from Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." I read
a few pages in the Google book link. Adorno is a more articulate and careful
observer than most of the blog writers and restaurant reviewers that Berg
usually quotes. But one still needs to read a fuller development of Adorno's
argument.

In any event, Berg is back beating his drum about money and art, but his
concern is vague, diffuse, and only made by proxy using other people's words.
What is your concern, Berg? Money sullies art? Commercial markets turn art
into commodities? Rich philistines buy and sell art and drive up prices? Shit
passes for art and commands high prices? Please, use your own inside voice and
tell us in your own words.




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