Social Darwinism is epitomized by the art world. No one even pretends that culture is tantamount to enlightenment. Goring a lover of art presided over the attempted plunder of masterpieces which the Italian curatorial establishment united against--like the French resistance against Nazism and the prospect of a Fuhrermuseum in Linz which would have been the repository of stolen masterpieces. Sadly fascism is the only way to describe an art market dominated by big auction houses—where esthetic judgements are undercut by the demands of investors collecting tangible assets. Neophytes who make the pilgrimage to Chelsea are likely to find the absence of humanism disconcerting. New art is regarded as venture capital while old masters like Basquiat break records at the box office.
read "The Wasteland" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn
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