CULTURAS IN VITRO
Echo chambers, artspeak and attitude: This illustration of the two solitudes -- art people and non-art people, each a shadow world of the other -- points out a bizarre contemporary situation. Each group has no idea what the other thinks or doesn't think of them, and neither group seems to care. The small pool of educated people (in fields such as politics, law or media) still has little interest in visual art; the art world has no idea of its irrelevance in the larger world of educated people.