[briga]

I think a lot of the current state of art criticism has to do with philosopher's like Barthes advocating the proverbial "death of the author". After that idea was discovered by liberal arts academia a floodgate of bullshit was released and humanities departments everywhere basically lot whatever credibility they had. After all, if every interpretation of an piece of art is correct, why bother spending any time coming up with what the artist actually meant to say? Much easier to just fill your interpretations with psuedo-intellectual artistic buzzwords and call it a day.

[fermienrico]

This is too amusing. Speaking about interpretations, I love watching Sotheby's TV [1] for some A-grade highly polished expensive marketing bullshit. It is enjoyable bullshit that makes ya wish you were rich.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/SothebysTV

[malandrew]

Sounds like modern day journalism.

"After all, if every opinion of what happened is valid and correct (because muh feels), why bother spending any time investigating what actually happened and reporting just the facts?"