Digital BW, The Print

> The art world is a world, it has it's members and it's history. The
> people that establish the value (especially monetarily) are those
> people. It is the same as any other group. The janitor that happens to
> glance at few people's stiches doesn't get to decide which surgeon is
> the best, the other surgeons do! The ones who deal with it every day.
>
> -mikeH
>
>
Sad isn't it. Art dealers support stuff they can sell, critics write about
things they can write about. None of this has anything to do with the work,
but with the concept behind the work. Arts education (and I used to be in
it) ,for a whole load of reasons that has very little to do with teachers,
is doing a poor job of educating people about art - and very often people
need the help of a dealer to interpret a 'concept'. And there is no causal
link between those who have money to buy art as having the skills to make a
judgement.

Julian