Thanks in part to the Whitney's taste in Biennials , kitsch as kitsch can stands as a hallmark of upscale galleries. The trick is to announce all that without someone laughing, especially in The Times . Quite sincerely, without intending to defraud me or anyone else, a press release pulls out all the stops. Its author, J. M. Welker, knows whereof he speaks. Breaking the silence Long before words, art already comes surrounded by walls.
Unfamiliar works have the barrier of their strangeness, almost akin to fakery .
Famous ones come with an even more dangerous obstacle, their familiarity and reputation, almost akin to a religion . Faced with art, then, most people just let their needs and their parents' truisms do the talking. Or they wait for the artist to start lecturing. Thankfully, they usually wait in vain. Words never contain a work of art.