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There are many problems in many areas of academia. One problem that besets art academics is they read Deleuze and read him wrong. Deleuze has a lot to offer, but I think many artists (and, now, many art critics and lecturers - it's endemic) fail to get a grip on Deleuze to the point where the art academy has taken mis-readings of Deleuze as empirical facts.
Luckily, artists don't need to be smart to be good; but the saturation of same ideas is fairly deplorable.
I do think that, while I find Banksy pretty boring, and his fans deplorable, part of the reason he's captured the public's (who is an idiot) imagination is because the world of academic art does seem to foster a cloistered set of closed influences. In one sense, it's important that the art world doesn't listen to Joe Public; on the other hand, it's equally important that London artists get out of Hoxton and start having a more interesting engagement with the world.
And this doesn't mean joining the fucking Stuckists.
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