"You work for us; we don’t work for you"

28 June 2011

Seriously?!

The following short comment to this post is worth analyzing for its acrobatics and for its providing perhaps a window into symptoms of our "contemporary culture".

This piece only succeeds as satire.

If this author speaks for the “Art Community,” artists have utter contempt for the democratically elected representatives of the people of the Netherlands yet they demand the respect (and don’t forget the 200M Euros) of those they scorn.

Dutch art will probably be improved by responding to people who actually value it enough to spend their own money on it rather than taking money from all to be delivered to artists by a bureaucrat who is comfortable with the concept that works of art have a right to exist while ordinary people don’t have a right not to pay for them. Leave alone that the self-stated goals of many of these works are to mock (I mean “challenge”) their patrons.

Silly artists, you work for us; we don’t work for you.

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