Perhaps I shouldn’t be such a cynical pessimist but the problem as I see it is if we don’t insist that artists prove to us that they have something interesting to say we end up far worse off in the long run. If we don’t discriminate against artists who fail to convey anything worthwhile then we’re also not suitably rewarding those artists who do have the amazing ability to both convey interesting things and do so in an interesting fashion by lauding them above artists who don’t have anything to say. If we travel down that road we get to the same situation the mainstream art world is in where the most successful artists are simply be those with the biggest egos to shovel their bullshit and you end up with worthless idiots like Tracy Emin receiving huge acclaim at the expense of genuinely good artists.