I'll try to take your comment seriously and explain what I like about his stuff. I personally find wrapping the Reichstag to be great. I live in Berlin, and s

I'll try to take your comment seriously and explain what I like about his stuff. I personally find wrapping the Reichstag to be great. I live in Berlin, and see the building regularly, and it's just such an entertainingly absurd thing to do to a very important building such that looking at it gives me joy. (There's a lot of modern art that does not do that for me.) It's just fun to look at. For me it's something like watching Monty Python -- the absurdity is a lot of what makes it interesting. (I don't mean to imply that that's the only reason anyone could like it.) I am a musician, and while there's a lot of "new music" that I don't get (or enjoy), there's a lot of it that I do. Mostly in the area I know things about (i.e. jazz). As you get into more more abstract art, often it does become "specialist" because it requires catching references and constructs that are used elsewhere and hearing how a piece uses, extends or intentionally avoids those. A casual listener won't catch that stuff, and a lot of the music may not be immediately appealing on a raw aesthetic level. But that's not specific to high-art. Pretty much any sitcom contains cultural references that are only funny in context. Mediterraneo10's comment about Ligetti though reminds me of something: I've introduced a lot of folks to "new music" (the snooty term folks mostly use for "classical" stuff that's come out since around the 1950s or so). I do that by taking them to the symphony. I almost always pick concerts that have at least some "new" pieces, and everyone I've taken has enjoyed them. There are some things that I'd find almost unlistenable on a CD at home that make sense even to the casual listener in that format. I think a lot of music is written for a particular type of space -- like trying to understand techno without ever setting foot in a dance club would be backasswards. I think it's the same with classical music, and a lot of jazz as well.