Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.