You know, it was bad enough when the Charlotte Ronson-hosted ART ROCKS! show two weeks ago featured a box with sand, a live lobster, and a glass of wine in it (get it?? ART!), but are you really supposed to feel bad that the overblown Art Basel scene down in Miami isn't getting the droves of rich millionaires buying their cousin's art and partying like only those flown in from Dubai last minute can?
It's like saying Burning Man really sucked this year because it didn't get its Citibank sponsoring. If you want to know the truth, Damien Hirst was right when he said that the art scene is totally over-saturated with money (and douchebags), and that if people are forced to spend less on art, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
Unless, of course, you're Damien Hirst.
For certain, the genre of "art' supported by
the wealthy is probably over done. The problem is not that art is over supported , but that thyere are too many people with obscene amounts of money .
The arts need support more than ever, as anyone can see. So is most of anything of real value.
What the fuck is that photo of??