He wrote that he could no longer tolerate a literary milieu that reduced art to "a series of irresponsible infantile games," and said that he found it "impossible to participate in literary life, to publish even in publications I find sympathetic".
The institutions that are responsible for exposing the public to art are dependent on the minuscule but wealthiest segment of society for support, a fact that has inescapably has reduced art to a reflection of their superficial values -- conformity, fashion, wealth, status and power.
Advocates of arts education are riding Glee's coattails in their fight to keep the arts a central part of American schools: many schools have reduced art and music courses due to accountability and budget pressures.
Certain early Conceptualists reduced art to the bare minimum — gestures, empty spaces — ostensibly in resistance to a voracious market.
"That show reduced art to decoration, and 'White on White"' -- the Suprematist painting by Kasimir Malevich -- "barely survived it.
Through March 23 As this elegant exhibition demonstrates, the sculptor Joel Shapiro began his career in the late 1960s, making works that reduced art to small, unassuming, hand-centered gestures.
Teeman has reduced art, at least in this case, to little more than ego plus aestheticism.
The happenings of Yves Kline, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann and the Fluxus artists further reduced art to action, with most doing away with painting altogether.
She added: "It says nothing that addresses the key issue affecting arts and culture: reduced arts spending across the board, which affects London as much as it does the regions.
They pull people towards the worst and best reviews – a five-star is worth reading; as is, for different reasons, a one-star – and reduce art to a simple figure.
They worry that the turf accountants of our culture (tipsters who know the price of everything but the value of nothing) are reducing art to a crude cash value.
