Status Updates From Has Modernism Failed?

Seems to be blaming artists and art world breaking away from tradition and traditional customs for how art has become almost pure commodity with little meaning.

So far highly romanticizing artistic past and presenting it as having no relation to consumption or status which is untrue. Romanticizing the outcast artist as a moral superior to the professional artist when it is likely a balance is most beneficial. That too much freedom to express anything at all leads to a moral bankruptcy and ultimate meaninglessness in art.

"Only with hindsight can we now see that tradition and authority may be necessary, even to make a genuine avant-garde possible—in order to provide something to revolt against. […] The artist finds himself under continuous pressure to be modern, but discovers that to be modern now is to be traditional […] Artists are finding that the only way to make something new is to borrow from the past."

“Modernism has thrown up many aggressively absurd forms of art that simply cannot be understood outside their corrosive relation to the contradictions that capitalist society poses for the artist: namely, the fact that art’s value tends to be defined, not by its spiritual, intellectual, or emotional content, but by its economic worth.”

“If the artist’s role has become marginal in modern Western society, it is not because modern art is intrinsically defective; it is because our society has divested art of all but aesthetic value, just as it has deprived us of meaningful spiritual experience.”