Why Do Artists Behave So Strangely?

Posted at 7:00 on November 26, 2012 by Andrew Sullivan
Daniel Siedell offers an answer: A painting is a weak and vulnerable thing because it is just not necessary. Smelly oil paint smeared across a canvas cannot be justified in this conditional, transactional world. Yet vast, complex institutions and networks have emerged to do just that, whether through the auction house (art as priceless luxury item), the museum tour ...