The Blame Game

Thinking again about Luc Tuymans' action and what the press and people in general took it to mean, i.e. the deliberate destruction of high monetary value in the face of poverty, it makes me wonder if in some twist the artist sort of gets the blame for this poverty.


In normal times, i.e. times that adher to some rules and reason, I would think it ludicrous to blame artists, especially artists, for the economic shortcomings of the prevailing system - artists who in their majority form a large section of the less well-off part of society, mostly by their own choice -, but these are surreal times.