Well, art is just embedded into society, akin to is JavaScript the best programming language. Art means the art market. A lot of art, like performance art, is r

Well, art is just embedded into society, akin to is JavaScript the best programming language. Art means the art market. A lot of art, like performance art, is really a hard sell. That's why painting is still thriving. But there is also the correlation of that if some artist gets famous in art circles because of the quality buyers will want to play cool and buy stuff. Another complication is that there are two types of artists, a very small percentage that sells well, and then there are the ones that just live from the next art residence, to the next Biennial. The latter are plenty and not really commercial in the first place, because committees are deciding. If this is then the same as your personal taste is questionable. Bonding with artists and supporting them is most likely the best way to go, as you implied.