Why should anyone outside the art world care about this? Why not ignore these people and leave them to fester in their own irrelevance? The problem isn't just with the degradation of art, though that's bad enough. The real trouble is with identitarianism itself and the society-wide tribalism that's breaking out across the entire Western world, from San Diego to Budapest. Identity politics isn't new, nor is the politicization of art, but the shots fired in the battle of group identities by the avant-garde Left is being answered by the identitarians of the so-called alt-Right.

The New Socialist Realists (4 November 2016)