Unleash the badness! Why the art world needs more sleaze and less morality

Art is being smothered by good intentions – and it’s becoming a bland, pious porridge. Let’s reinject the rebellion, please

Why has art lost its wickedness? What happened to the wildness, the sinfulness, the sleaze and the decadence?

This year saw politics and ideology smother the art world in good intentions. The Venice Biennale was oh so serious. The Tate Modern Turbine Hall’s latest project was unveiled and turned out to be a garden deck with weeds growing in pots – a work whose ecological message is banal and visually null.

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