Remember this? A couple of students buy a pineapple at the supermarket and gull the art museum authorities into displaying it as a work of art.
Art has been in trouble for a very long time. Oh, you can still find gifted artists. But all the headlines seem to go to the crapola-meisters. And most of the money, too. I knew a high school art teacher whose art was positively gorgeous–and original, too. She was lucky to have the job she had. No way any of her work was going to make it into a museum.
*Sigh*