it feels like this is shifting a bit. for example much of the work at the whitney biennial is quite political and hardly abstract. of course it's subject to man

it feels like this is shifting a bit. for example much of the work at the whitney biennial is quite political and hardly abstract. of course it's subject to many of the same forces as always (the fashion/connection/money) but at least it feels decidedly more engaged with the world than a lot of the easy-to-mock(-if-a-bit-unfairly) modern art that often comes to mind. and by being more connected to the common experience, it now sinks or floats based on whether it says something that feels true or insightful or relevant to our time. the key piece is that the average viewer can know wtf it's even talking about without much background or context.