In preparation for going to the art gallery to choose an artwork I summarized the different excerpts we are allowed to use as succinctly as possible…

1. Art should be sensory
2. Art can be anything
3. Art is based in ritual
4. Globalization has revealed to us all that there are ‘others’ and to them we are also ‘others’ which has caused us to trivialize and dismiss as novelties the art and material culture of other groups admit our own existential crisis of whether we are important or not. Oh yeah, and something about the ‘National Death’