Worshipping at the church of art. (controversy stirred by '60 Minutes' segment on the over-valued art world)

National Review | January 24, 1994| | Copyright

RECENT segment of 60 Minutes, in which Morley Safer went to SoHo to vent his disgust at fashionable artists, dealers, and critics, has had the entire art world in an uproar. The encounter was a little like that famous cult classic Bambi Meets Godzilla, a one-minute cartoon in which we see the gentle woodland creature disporting himself in his natural habitat and then a massive reptilian foot descending out of nowhere to squash the luckless creature utterly.

Now no one relishes the thought of having the heavy hitters of 60 Minutes going after him, but inhabitants of ...

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