Total eclipse of the art?
Sibyl Ruth | The Critic | 6th December 2024
Should art ever be destroyed? This catchy question is not directed at woeful art (go ahead and throw it away) but more at the politicisation of good art. Politicisation is sometimes the handiwork of “iconoclastic experts” – woke curators – whose wall label texts are explicitly political. Then there are protests that take advantage of renowned (but apolitical) artworks. One writer suggests we show less “pious reverence” toward art. “Occasional destruction is the price we pay for art doing its job.”