Lessons From The Whitney Biennial Debacle

Andrea Scott:“Of course, the major power dynamic at play in this story is the onebetween art and money. For too long, patronage of the arts has come withpatronizing attitudes toward artists—that they should be grateful forfunding, no matter its source. The obscenely inflated contemporary artmarket—whose metrics are based on auction results, from which artistsdon’t see a penny—has created the impression of art as a playground forthe wealthy. But the delusion that ar