I don’t limit myself to art in galleries. Today, galleries only select non objective art and usually with a anti religious or anti establishment content message.
But, having an open mind to amateur artists does not require one to listen to every clumsy high schooler playing (or attempting to play) Stairway to Heaven, even if he is well motivated.
If Shattner had offered some tiny element of originality I would not have made the comment.
I suppose I would often choose kindness over originality.
As to the anti-religious slant in art today, I find it horrifying. And it’s not anti-religious in general. More anti-Christian. I accept that people choose to do horrible work. I can’t accept that I have to pay for it with my taxes. I would like to see most of the arts pulled from government support. We used to have a patron system and the new Internet fundings would allow people who support a particular position to fund it so that I don’t have to. And there’s still the problem that the liberals have taken over the museum field, as they have the education field. I don’t know how to balance free speech against disgust in a museum setting.