"Art has gotten a lot more arbitrary," Lyndel King, the retired director of the University of Minnesota's Weisman Art Museum, tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"It's a secret language.
[Artists] use words designed for insiders or those who aspire to be insiders."
That's why the Walker Art Center, which the Star Tribune describes as "the region's most prestigious and influential arts institution," is often described as "the antithesis of a business, really occasionally dipping into populism to ring the cash registersbut with a mission that bends toward niche."
That niche, in this case, is the Minneapolis museum's upcoming Keith Haring exhibition, which the Star Tribune describes as "a survey of the life and art of Keith Haring, a pop artist of the 1980s whose work is easily recognizable beyond the art world, from an era that did not produce many."
The exhibition, organized by the Broad contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, will help the Walker drive attendance and, by extension, visitor spending by casual contemporary art fans, who will be reminded that friendly art still exists beyond "Spoonbridge and Cherry," King says.
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