[lbo-talk] art world in crisis!

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

see, in my efforts to become cultured, I have asked you wankers over and 
over again, how on earth do you know what Capital A Art is anyway. And it's 
not just you, but the folks with art and lit backgrounds at the Pulp 
Culture list:  everyone who's ever insisted that there is such as thing as 
timeless Art or even hinted at it. The best answer I've ever gotten is 
something stupidly pithy like, "It speaks to a universal 
experience."  Whatev. I think people who say such things are utterly full 
of shit. Art is what people define as art and as andie suggests, to be seen 
as Capital A art, there always had to be gatekeepers to define what belongs 
and what doesn't: A supremely human endeavor and certainly nothing etched 
into the universe as Essence.

(p.s. Chuck mentions the 80s. Didn't the same crap go down then with the 
whole Wall St. phenom? Or am I just imagining things? )

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