Art is often considered most serious when it is also faintly miserable. The gallery has perfected the art of making people feel underqualified. Even anti-capitalist art circulates quite comfortably within capitalist systems. Too much still depends on whether the right person calls it clever, strange, or collectible. The less certain people are about what a work means, the more moving they may find it. Feminist art is still asked to explain itself in ways other art rarely is. A surprising number of people leave galleries convinced the artist was the least skilled person in the room.
Art is often considered most serious when it is also faintly miserable. The gallery has perfected the art of making people feel underqualified. Even anti-capitalist art circulates quite comfortably within capitalist systems. Too much still depends on whether the right person calls it clever, strange, or collectible. The less certain people are about what a work means, the more moving they may find it. Feminist art is still asked to explain itself in ways other art rarely is. A surprising number of people leave galleries convinced the artist was the least skilled person in the room.
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