[Borges]

You'd have a hard time putting people like Blake and Melville on the Right. There's always something new that a great Artist has to say..and that's always disturbing to their status quo in some way. For instance Schoenberg's music seemed like the height of Modernity in 1910, today it sounds just like the logical extension of Romanticism that it was.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Yes, they rioted at a Schoenberg concert but that is the exception rather than the rule. But today all art is equal and "The Muppets sing Verdi" is on the same playing field with Verdi and with Mona Hatoum and her art of "turning traditional kitchen implements into threatening objects with electrification and dramatic shifts in scale." There are no riots to see and hear any of these artists because, as Gloria Stein says, they know the art of how far to go in going too far. It's all very safe and the artists (with the exception of Verdi) are probably heavily underwritten and funded by grants. Flatter the people to believe that they are all "artists" that they are "creative" that they are "equal" and you have today's artistic world. Today you don't hear or see GREAT art but you'll hear about celebrities like Andy Warhol (who was famous for being famous). The romantic cult of novelty is very superficial.