A basic familiarity with the ideas of the leading artists and architects is no longer part of the essential cultural equipment of an informed citizen.
Kenneth Mikkelsen's insight:
Fifty years ago, educated people could be expected to identify the likes of Saul Bellow, Buckminster Fuller, and Jackson Pollock.
Today one is expected to know about the human genome and the debate over global warming, but nobody is thought ignorant for being unable to identify the architect of the Freedom Tower or name a single winner of the Tate Prize?
Why is that?