And it's not likely to
get any better any time soon, so it's on each
of us to make our way through the
morass and figure
out how best to function in this frantic and fractured new world.
Then the Metropolitan Museum's Rosalind McKever archly recounted the scholarly
morass that is Futurist sculpture, where the works
of heirless artists like Boccioni
get cast and copied on a lark, and hyperactive estates like Giacomo Balla's churn
out vast quantities
of authorized, museum - ready merch.