The gallery scene is still a thing, but even it suffers from capitalist enshitification as Art has shifted from the signifier of taste to a place to keep your m

The gallery scene is still a thing, but even it suffers from capitalist enshitification as Art has shifted from the signifier of taste to a place to keep your money where it can't be taxed. Making the art world more of a stock market than a laboratory. On thing I find interesting in all of this is the nearly complete avoidance of the viewer's role in Art. That removing taste, deadening the palate of the viewer through political alienation of the educated class where taste is fostered has largely allowed this to happen. Art made for artists is Art made for viewers with taste. Why can't everyone be taught to understand Art. Media literacy is how our culture can grow, but it has been defunded for decades.