Is Joel Shapiro special and famous? His work looks boring but there is more than enough aesthetic mastery in art today, someetimes on par with Rodin. Abstract,

Is Joel Shapiro special and famous? His work looks boring but there is more than enough aesthetic mastery in art today, someetimes on par with Rodin. Abstract, surreal, real, take your pick. Just took a quick scroll through a popular portal: http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-question-of-integrity-will-get-finer-and-finer-and-more-delicate http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-question-of-integrity-will-get... http://www.xavierhufkens.com/exhibition/2006-09-antony-gormley http://www.xavierhufkens.com/exhibition/2006-09-antony-gorml... http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-bastard-form-of-mass-culture-is-humiliated-repetition-always-new-1 http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-bastard-form-of-mass-culture-i... http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-randomness-to-which-mutation-testifies-is-implicit-in-the-very http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-randomness-to-which-mutation-t... http://www.stephan-balleux.com/index.php?id=2 http://www.stephan-balleux.com/index.php?id=2 There is so much of this it will take one weeks to wad through just the quality work. And then there is a huge sea of ugly dog vomit. Just as with any product category, if you put enough crap out there, someone will bite. If everyone sees mostly crap, they think this is as good as it gets and bite en masse. The schools producing dog vomit artists are providing a valuable service to the art market by adding variety.