Ezra Pound was wrong, the artist is not the antennae of the race. The artist is the soul of the race, digesting and confronting the madness of everyday life. Art is a bridge between the very nasty universe and our very isolated selves. Art allows us to live. It is part of our ecology as humans.
Corporate art is about something else altogether.
It's about a giant machine making as much money as it can. It does this by looking for lowest common denominators amongst ourselves. It moves away from the subtle, to the coarse. It encourages us to revel in bloodshed and pornography and gossip and hatred. Well I'm no saint, obviously.