Okay, so a toddler makes splashy paintings and a mum in England posts them on the Saatchi site. Some schmoe there drops 40 buck on one to hang above his couch and a Berlin Gallery mass e-mails everyone on that site to rent their gallery, so the Daily Mail reports that the kid has the art world fooled.
But it is the art world who has the Daly Mail fooled. The art world doesn’t participate on the Saatchi site – once an artist or gallery is truly ensconced in the art world, they want nothing to do with the democracy of the Saatchi internet free-for-all.
British culture seems to be posited on the certainty that people with good grammar and pretentious accents have all the answers and that art is never the answer. Fuck the hooligans.