Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.