#gregorg

Art doesn't exist for itself. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum. Art is evidence of the culture we build and the history we write. It will tell the stories of our time to the generations to come. The attempts of Detroit's itinerant would-be kings to use art as a bargaining chip, or to loot the city's public trust for private benefit will stand as testimony against our country and our culture for centuries to come.

... the[se] forces and assumptions -- art as leisure, entertainment, consumption experience, luxury good and corporate branding project -- are already operating across vast swaths of the contemporary art and museum world.