>Such people (and the corporations they own, manage, or work for)
>feed the commercial art behemoth.
After I sent that I remembered the technical definition of commercial art boils down to images produced for advertising. But I live in a town where the biggest museum patron is Eli Broad, the philharmonic plays in Disney Hall, and an mfa can cost more than a Cremaster dvd. When you think of that it seems there's no such thing as non-commercial art.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10099
Video Green Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness Chris Kraus
Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs. Probing the surface of art-critical buzzwords, Chris Kraus brilliantly chronicles how the City of Angels has suddenly become the epicenter of the international art world and a microcosm of the larger culture. Why is Los Angeles art so completely divorced from other realities of the city? Shrewd, analytic and witty, Video Green is to the Los Angeles art world what Roland Barthes' Mythologies were to the society of the spectacle: the live autopsy of a ghost city.