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"It is the artists, and a certain line of thinking about art, that have given the people with the cash permission to buy and sell what amounts to nothing, and to do so for ever larger and more insane sums of money."
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I guest authored a post for the ineluctable The Education of Oronte Churm, over at Inside Higher Ed. The good Mr.
In the old days, the words "art" and "science" did not mean the same thing they mean today, at least in academia. Today, unfortunately, they have almost come to mean opposites. You can't be doing both at once. Or, at least, that's what people who haven't thought about it much may think.
Modern art is museum board friends accepting your inflated whoopee cushion as a charitable donation. You enjoy a massive tax deduction, and they in turn donating to your museum. Basement storage thereafter where nobody need look at it.
Modern Art was created by Amendment XVI to the United States Constitution, 1913, followed by the rich being dunned for World War I. They obtained relief by elevating EuroTrash daubings into remarkable tax-free income. Critics separate craft (undeserving!) from art.