Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy.
This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said controversies occur. After all, as the American painter Ad Reinhardt once quipped: “Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
The year in art included plenty of snark over new depictions of the British royal family that were perceived as too aggressive […]
Divisive royal portraits and a $6.2-million banana: 2024's biggest art controversies – CNN