exploding prices of the art market - information overload - art as the opposite of mass media - fashion as the primary model of art - the skill of drawing - slowness of painting
Eiffel tower, World Trade Center, 9/11, Turner, Goya, David, Picasso's Guernica as the last truly political painting, Whitney Biennial, Warhol, Koons, Duchamp, Michelangelo, Masaccio, Rego, Kiefer, Hockney, Freud, Gilbert & George, post-modernism, Mondrian, Rothko, Kelly, Scully, beauty, Eliasson