The consumer is set on the throne and flattered to his face in the popular arts and then insulted behind his back in the museums. I hope it is not the prelude to another reign of terror. Josef Geobells, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, said, A lie, if repeated often enough, will be believed. Goebells knew the power of words. This post-Guttenburg age is an age of image processing.
Words are merely adjuncts to images.
One of the Whitney heiresses withdrew all support for the museum which bears her name. The producer of that installation has learned well from those he emulates, notwithstanding his blatant use of irony. The Nazis raised propaganda to an art form through their use of installations and political theater such as Krisalnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. I heard an interview once in which Dada was characterized as the artistic herald of the systematized absurdity and perversity which brought about, in its final political expression, perfectly efficient factories of death. Perhaps this is why others have said that there can be no art after the Holocaust.