I appreciate it but it hardly plays a significant or direct role in my life. I go to museums, listen to my dad tell me things (he was an artist), and subscribe to Art in America. That’s about the extent of my interaction with contemporary art, for better or worse.
Do you believe that what galleries show and sell in NYC or any major venue have any effect on our living culture?
Yes, of course; that’s part of our living culture. Admittedly there is a highbrow or elitist aura surrounding that stuff, and maybe it is less accessible than other art forms – literature, music – but I’d like to think there are a lot of new ideas that trickle down from contemporary art and find their ways into the mainstream, where the rest of us can enjoy them without knowing where they came from.