Custodians of Culture - Schoolyard Art: Playing Fair Without the Referee

This speech by Dave Hickey has a very interesting take on the way the modern art world has been running lately. He first starts his speech talking about Dr. J the famous basketball player, and how he used to call fouls on himself and how he always played by the rules because he always wanted to play in the pros. He applies this to the art world in a very simple matter, artists should be in it for the art not for the money that the art will make. He is very witty in his speech which probably comes from his background as a professor at the University of Nevada. He says that art can be a lucrative business but it should not be just for profitable gain. He talks about how non-commerical art can be very beneficial for art shows and it makes them money.  HE says how art has changed since the 1970's and now it is much more post-modernism. His speech drags on a little bit and is hard to understand the whole thing but the I think the gist of it talks about how art has changed and it is all about money now.