Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.