Modern Art and the Critics (short story preview)

Is “art” in the eye of the beholder? The democratization of art, writing, and to a lesser extend music (I don’t think an “artist” could get away with trying to pass off the wailings of a cat in heat or a thousand nails scratching a chalkboard as music–at least not yet) has given us some interesting and many ghastly, creepy and downright offensive works for critics to opine about and museums to show. This preview (and especially the complete short story) is my tongue in cheek yet very plausible t...