[pmoriarty]

"I don't think that these are taken seriously by too many people, and they won't be in the future."

You're an optimist.

It's more likely we'll slide towards an Idiocracy future, where it's garbage that'll be praised to the heavens.

The contemporary art world has been sliding that direction for a long time, and outside the art world kitsch dominates, and it's probably only going to get worse over time.