Occupation: Writer Birth: 1965
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, ….
The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gyps….
Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere….
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analys….