I feel like we've been waiting for "the end of the moneyed era in which attitude trumped ability" since the Enlightenment. i think we're stuck with rock star artists and artsy rock stars (which i don't think is such a bad thing, really), unless we revert to anonymous religious art.
I wonder if Dash's death will in retrospect serve as the marker of the end of a moneyed era in which attitude trumped ability.
Sad stuff. I think it's exciting when a biography contextualizes work in the way that Dash Snow's did-- even if I found that friggin' NY Mag article unbearable.
I'm making sure that word of the publishing of this article is circulated among the 25,000 students, faculty and staff of the Hunter College community as well as their few hundred-thousand neighbors, relatives, friends and family members. — Gregg Morris, the WORD (hunterword.com)