txt: The Colour of Money - www.frieze.com
But what about the artists who effectively harness the commercial forces of our cultural moment, which Saltz and his editors at New York find so distasteful? Their post-Warholian impact on the current artistic landscape cannot be dismissed with simplistic ethical arguments: money is bad, so art tainted by it is also bad. The fact is that there is no way to escape the market: it absorbs subversion and packages dissent, selling us an image of ourselves as conscientious objectors even when we are deeply entrenched in its system.video: Pink Floyd - Money on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkjkTe5kZE]
