Has art lost its raison d'être?

Art historian Angel González recently published a book ('Painting without having the faintest idea') that strongly criticises artistic practices today. In an interview with Fietta Jarque, he laments that art "has become a gigantic joke. A joke in which we shouldn't participate. Maybe we should call a sort of strike against contemporary museums, or museums in general. They have nothing to do with art anymore; they are part of the image industry. It's regrettable that art, conceived of to make man's existence on this earth more pleasurable, has become a source of obsessions, worries, and hallucinations. And to see all these artists who do nothing by bore us. ... Where can we spend an enjoyable moment? I always tell my students: as long as there are nightclubs, there is hope."

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