Air Guitar

When reading this passage I was almost immediately caught up in Hickey's reference to the "art community." Hickey asks that we stop thinking of the art world as a "world," "community," or "market." He asks that we treat the art world as a "semi-public, semi-mercantile, semi-institutional agora--an intermediate institution of civil society..." likening to professional sports. It seems as though this relates directly to the question of why an artist makes art. If our goal as artists are to communicate with others, to explore and present new information should we not do so in a way that makes it available to as many people as possible? When you treat the "art world" as its own little community sectioned off in some corner of the world it is as though you wish to withold information from those not directly connected to art practice.